Your Milk Check Is Tied to Beef Cross Calf Prices

A Dairy Herd Management article

Milk prices are not getting a quick lift, and dairy producers are leaning on other revenue streams to stay profitable. And as long as beef on dairy remains strong, analysts say milk prices will stay muted, as producers won’t see high prices on both.

That was the message from market experts at World Dairy Expo this week, in a discussion taped live for U.S. Farm Report. When Mike North, president of the producer division at Ever.Ag, was asked whether the market is finding more balance and whether higher milk prices are coming this year, he said, “not yet.”

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