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Average butterfat and protein levels in Northeast milk fell slightly in April from the month prior, but were higher year over year. The Statistical Uniform Price, not including PPD, rose to $18.80/cwt, and with a $3.43 PPD, the effective price...

March brought positive movement in milk prices across Federal Milk Marketing Order 1. The Statistical Uniform Price (SUP) rose to $18.47 per cwt (excluding PPD), and with a $2.66 PPD in Suffolk County, MA, the total reached $21.13. Component...

Grain production on New York dairy farms has increased over the last few years, according to Cornell Dairy Farm Business Summary (DFBS) data. Milk production base programs and the inability to grow the herd, land availability combined with no...

Hired labor plays a significant role on dairy farms, with more than 9,000 jobs provided by New York dairy farms in 2019. As farm size grows, hired employees provide a larger percentage of the labor required to operate the farm. In 2021, authors...

The 2024 business year was a higher earnings year on average across New York dairy farms that participated in the Dairy Farm Business Summary (DFBS), as noted in the 2024 DFBS Progress of the Dairy Farm Report. Strong milk prices and component...

PRO-DAIRY business management specialists Jason Karszes, Lainey Koval and Mary Kate MacKenzie shared these reports in the August 2025 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and...

Farm Business Management team adds two new members Lainey Koval (pictured left) has been working part-time with PRO-DAIRY, starting during her senior year at Cornell, and is now on staff full-time. She will provide administrative support for the...

This update was released in the October 2024 issue of PRO-DAIRY's e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators. Given the unpredictable nature of the dairy industry, it is...

This fact sheet authored by PRO-DAIRY business management specialists Lainey Koval and Jason Karszes was shared in the September 2024 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and...