Canadian Bison Producer Struggles With Weather & Massive Milk Production Numbers Expected - Tranel

MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON

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Canada continues to suffer with wildfires and the lack of rain. Pam Jahnke visits with one of the hosts during their Canadian Rockies Farm Tour, Bob Wilson. Wilson started out as a beef producers but exited that industry when Mad Cow Disease closed many beef markets for Canadian producers. Now he's raising 50 bison on his Morning Star Bison Ranch on Vancouver Island, BC. He says that the water holding capacity of the soil he's using is a limiting factor on how many animals he can raise. As you would expect, everything he needs as a producer costs more just to get it to the island.
Hot and sticky again today with rain building in the weekend forecast. That's Stu Muck's fair-time forecast.
Now is the time when farms start gathering a lot of data. Monitoring fields, crops produced, inputs used - they pull it all together. More and more farms are looking for data points from their conservation practices as well. Ben Jarboe visits with Kim Meyer, an agronomist who is also the Program Manager for the Dane County Demo Farms. She says these farms are run cooperatively focused on decreasing soil erosion and keeping water in the area clean. She says the funding they have came from the NRCS. It's designed to last for just 5 years, so she's hoping funding will continue.
Dairy's been challenged this week with projections of more milk coming to the market then currently needed. Matt Tranel, dairy analyst with EverAg in Platteville tells Pam Jahnke where the "choke" points are, and what industry processing partners are saying.
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