National Ag News
Changing focus from more milk to better components improved dairy farm’s bottom line
Oct 16, 2017, 22:15 PM
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A dairy farm family says shifting production towards quality over quantity has definitely increased profitability.
Julie Maurer manages the people, the milking parlor, and many office duties for Soaring Eagle Dairy near Manitowoc, Wisconsin. She tells Brownfield she noticed some farms were making more money for their milk. “I had noticed that some of our peers had better pay prices in their milk checks last year, and so I asked our rep at our co-op to take our components up to what my peers had seen that year and the result was about a 55-cent increase per hundredweight.”
And with 900 Holsteins, Maurer says that adds up fast.
