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Farm Credit East's monthly Knowledge Exchange Partner provides insights, trends, ag market outlooks and other topical information as it relates to the Northeast's diverse agricultural industries.

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October 2019 Knowledge Exchange Partner

October 08, 2019

The right to unionize and collectively bargain was granted to New York farm employees by the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act recently signed into law and slated to go into effect in January. While the law still needs some clarification, the Northeast Dairy Producers Association asked Chuck Palmer, labor attorney at Michael Best & Friedrich, for some insight on labor unions, collective bargaining and how these new provisions might impact farms. The second article discusses Dairy Revenue Protection; a risk management option that gives producers the opportunity to establish a price floor for milk shipped based on current futures markets.

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Tags: business management, business planning, communication, employee management, labor, legislation
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Sep

September 2019 Knowledge Exchange Partner

September 06, 2019

Northeast state legislatures and departments of labor have had a busy year with the issuance of new labor rules. While a complete discussion of all the relevant rules and regulations ag employers need to know is beyond the scope of this issue, our first Knowledge Exchange Partner article covers a few relatively new rules Northeast employers should be aware of. Our second article covers the U.S. Department of Commerce’s draft agreement with Mexico tomato growers to suspend Mexico’s ongoing anti-dumping investigation of fresh tomatoes.

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Tags: administration, employee management, insurance, labor, risk management, trade, vegetable production
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July 2019 Knowledge Exchange Partner

July 01, 2019

The new Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program is essentially a “next generation” of the previous Margin Protection Program. Numerous changes were made to create the DMC, with the resulting program more favorable for dairy producers. Learn more about this new risk management option. This issue’s second article highlights a relatively new section in Farm Credit East’s Today's Harvest blog: Tax Talks. In this series, Farm Credit East Senior Tax Consultant Dario Arezzo shares monthly insights on a variety of tax topics.

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Posted In: Knowledge Exchange Partner

Tags: ag outlook, crop growers, crop insurance, dairy expenses, dairy revenue, dairy, insurance, risk management, tax planning, taxes
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June 2019 Knowledge Exchange Partner

June 05, 2019

Farm Credit East’s May 2019 Milk Marketing Update report presents two different perspectives from the field of milk marketing: Dr. Mark Stephenson, Director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin, and Lucas Fuess, Director of Dairy Market Intelligence at HighGround Dairy. This report examines the production, movement, processing and marketing of milk and dairy products across the United States and specifically in the Northeast. Our second article highlights Farm Credit East’s Northeast Production Cost Index. While revenues have been largely stagnant, Chris Laughton, Director of Knowledge Exchange, notes it has been getting increasingly more expensive to produce farm products.

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Tags: ag outlook, dairy expenses, dairy revenue, dairy, dairy benchmarking, economy, produce management, production, productivity, usda, variable costs

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