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What Does Your Future Hold?December 26, 2024 - 10:30 am
What is the Secret to More Positive Cash Flow?December 6, 2024 - 1:25 pm
Are We Getting Too Comfortable?November 26, 2024 - 6:11 pm
Why Aren’t You Dancing in the Rain?November 12, 2024 - 12:28 pm
What Is Your Next Step?October 30, 2024 - 9:59 pm
Stepping over Dollars to pick up Dimes!
The answer is to monitor all of your costs. At the same time work to minimize all feed shrink, especially with high priced commodities and expensive silages. Finally, do make a point of measuring all of your costs.
What? High Interest Returns on your Money?
Ever wonder how to boost your interest earnings, especially with rates that banks pay you being so low? Granted, you may earn about 0.10% on any balances left in your account. Why not earn it another way?
Good Times Require Discipline, Too!
Former Green Bay Packers Coach Vince Lombardi stated, “Winning is not a sometime thing – it’s an all-the-time thing.” We are currently facing a difficult situation in the dairy industry today. As I write this column, we are enjoying some higher milk prices. However, by the time you read this article, we could very well be seeing lower prices again. While I hope that is not the case, it is always a possibility.
The Virtues of Speed
For a fascinating example of speed and action combined, just watch what happens in the pits at an Indy car race. As outlined in Fast Company’s book “The Rules of Business,” there are four primary rules that guide both the driver and his pit crew in their respective roles.
You Won’t See How to Reach Your Goals
Do you have an interest in reaching your goals more quickly? This article will show you how!
Take a Lesson from Jeb Bush
Dairy farmers have a solid business lesson to learn from a prior article in the Wall Street Journal written by Jeb Bush