WCM 2022: Session 1 (January 14) Resources

Topics: Methane's Role in Global Warming & Current and Future Opportunities to Decrease Enteric Methane

Speakers: Dr. Bob Howarth, The David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology & Current and Future Opportunities to Decrease Enteric Methane
Dr. Thomas R. Overton, Professor and Chair of Animal Science-CU and Director PRO-DAIRY Program

On April 18, Dr. Andrew Novakovic, recently retired but formerly the Director of the Cornell Dairy and Markets Policy Program, sent an update on financial assistance provided by the federal government through the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), including an overview of the program and estimates of the direct payments dairy farmers might receive.

April 13, 2020 - USDA's official, consensus forecast for agricultural markets, known as the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, just came out.  Their analysis of dairy market (as of early April) is as follows:

The South Central NY Dairy and Field Crops Team has compiled a list of articles that we think may be useful to dairy producers and their service providers as we all navigate the COVID-19 situation. Please stay safe and reach out to our team if you have questions or need help finding information. We are here to help with tools and resources to support all of the normal day-to-day dairy and field crop management considerations, in addition to emerging topics related to COVID-19.

In January 2020, before news of coronavirus became widespread, the futures markets showed signs that 2020 would be a recovery year for the dairy industry. Class III futures prices were between $17.75 and $18.25 per hundredweight from February through December 2020. However, 2020 milk futures fell as the coronavirus began to spread. As of April 6, Class III futures for May had fallen to $12.58 per hundredweight. In this article, Cornell University Professor of Applied Economics Christopher Wolf discusses the various price risk management options available to dairy producers in the context of COVID-19.

This is the third Progress Report summarizing Selected Financial and Production Factors for 2019 with data from 135 NY farms who participated in the Dairy Farm Business Summary.

This is a revised Do's and Don'ts list for dairy farmers during times of financial stress that was originally published back in 2018. With the increasing likelihood of considerable financial stress in agriculture this year, this might be an easy read to help focus on some critical things as different decision need to be made.

Dairy Market Updates from Andrew Novakovic at Cornell University and Mark Stephenson at University of Wisconsin on April 1st, 2020.

By Dr. Bob Milligan, LearningEdge Monthly

I have been visiting with clients and colleagues and thinking about how to respond to our COVID-19 crisis. My wife and I are hunkered down as we are among the vulnerable and are in position to isolate. This issue is a series of short articles focused around what I think are the three keys to navigating this crisis. They are: Leadership, Planning, Communication and Collaboration.

Our South Central NY Dairy and Field Crops Team is open for business! We are responding to COVID-19 social distancing and NYS workplace mandates by working from our home offices. We will be avoiding person-to-person contact to reduce risk of spreading the novel coronavirus. However, our staff are available during normal business hours for communications and information requests. We are as committed as ever to supporting the essential work of farmers and the agricultural industry, and we would love to hear from you! We will do our best to be your agricultural information resource during this extremely challenging time.