“Even though we felt like we were starting at a good place, we didn’t want to see things go south [during the transition planning process]. We wanted to honor everyone and make sure we weren’t missing anything. Having a third party involved really goes a long way in validating all of our feelings about how things should go and listening to what we wanted to accomplish,” said Jared Kurtz of Kurtland Farms in Berks County, Pa.
- Risk management planning and strategizing:
“Zach Myers’ seminars offered by the Center for Dairy Excellence have been extremely informative on understanding market conditions, providing solutions to counter downturns, and determining the best strategy for our farm. Zach also visited our farm and met with me to explain the programs in depth. Learning the multiple programs available and determining your cost of production is critical information for making informed and strategic decisions to protect your farm’s financial health,” said Ginger Breon of Weaver Family Farm in Centre County, Pa.
“Zach’s ‘Protecting Your Profits’ resources provide a massive amount of global, domestic and regional dairy market information that demonstrate where the markets have been and help indicate which direction they are going. I could go to all of the individual data sources myself to accumulate all of that information, but Zach compresses the data into about a 15-minute presentation that’s easy to consume [each month],” said Michael John, Executive Vice President, Milk Marketing at Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association.
