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The enrollment period for the 2022 Dairy Margin Coverage program has opened, and dairy farmers who wish to participate have until Feb. 18.

Risk management helps avoid bad outcomes The term risk management has become an integral part of the dairy lexicon in the last decade, and its merits have never been more obvious than during the wild swings caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. During the April 21 Hoard’s Dairyman DairyLivestream, the University of Wisconsin’s Mark Stephenson described risk management not as a way to make money but rather as an opportunity to avoid having a really bad outcome. “What I want to always tell a group or audience is that risk management is going to cost you something,” he told the online audien...

You know it’s been a rough one when people start talking about turning to a new year while it’s still September. Those souls, tempest-tossed and woebegone, are a few days from getting their wish and being rid of 2020. But changing the calendar won’t magically wave away the changes of the past year. 2021 will begin with high unemployment, muted demand from restaurants, a nationwide vaccination program that is just getting started, and a handsome U.S. sovereign debt. Here are some of the big questions for the ag industry as it enters the new year. 1. How will the Biden administra...