Milk Checks still too small

It's the middle of the month and just received the May final milk check, $9.30 net after coop deduct. That enough to cover all expenses, again.

Last week was DPNM Dairy Days in Ruidoso, NM. Not much good news there either, but at least I got to see some interesting things at the trade show booths.

Maybe $16/cwt milk by Sept 2009, and maybe $18/cwt milk by Now 2010. Let's hope they're wrong and the milk price improves sooner and higher the projected.

Simple Update

Wow, it's been three weeks since my last post. It's been real busy around the dairy the past few weeks. Selling low production cows for the beef market and looking for money to make ends meet has taken up most of my time.

Milk futures keep crashing down, CWT herd retirement moving along slowly. No national or regional milk reduction plan in place to help supply vs demand.

I guess everyone is in shock (co-op's too) and there's no movement to speak of, now what will happen. Wait and See is going to be ugly, ugly, ugly and not the answer we all need to survive.

Going to dairy meetings next week, hope to see and hear some good news. At least I'll see other dairymen and women from our great State of New Mexico.