This month's Knowledge Exchange Partner article contributors Corey A. Geiger and Abbigail C. Prins of CoBank, outline a mixed outlook for U.S. dairy in 2025, noting strong retail sales and export potential but weak restaurant demand and rising costs. They highlight a historic drop in cow culling, surging butterfat production, and global herd challenges, suggesting cautious optimism for the industry’s future.
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Grant Writing Success for New York Dairy Farmers
As the region celebrates Dairy Month this June, the New York agricultural community has even more reason to cheer: Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced that $21.6 million has been awarded to 103 farms through the Dairy Modernization Grant Program.
June 30, 2025
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2025 Grain and Oilseed Industry Outlook
In the recent webinar, Farm Credit East, Horizon Farm Credit and CoBank Lead Economists, Tanner Ehmke and Jacqui Fatka, explore the latest insights on U.S. grain and biofuel markets. With record soybean and corn harvests, profitable storage options and recovering export demand, the landscape is shifting.
January 6, 2025
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FARM CREDIT SYSTEM REPORTS 2022 THIRD QUARTER AND NINE-MONTH NET INCOME
The Farm Credit System today reported that combined net income increased 6.9% to $1.9 billion and 4.8% to $5.4 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, as compared with net income of $1.8 billion and $5.2 billion for the same periods of the prior year.
November 03, 2022
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USDA Dairy Margin Coverage Program
Learn all about the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) risk management program in this month’s Knowledge Exchange Partner, including coverage options, limitations and the deadline to sign up.
November 01, 2022
Business Tips and Tools
How Does Apple Insurance Protect Quality?
Pick-your-own apple orchards are familiar with wasted apples. Customers may take a bite of a few apples while picking or toss a few on the ground during their stay. While crop insurance doesn’t cover these unfortunate losses, it can help with apple quality before the masses visit the orchard.
October 31, 2022
Tax Talks
Employee Retention Credit and Supply Chain Disruptions
The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) is a refundable tax credit that taxpayers could obtain by meeting a quantitative test for either a decline in revenues, or because their business was shut down wholly or partially due to a governmental order. This shutdown test includes “supply chain disruptions.” Today’s Tax Talk considers how the IRS views a supply chain disruption.
October 25, 2022
Northeast Economic Engine
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