Milk Prices and Marketing
Low milk prices can stress the best dairy business plans. Methods of managing risk through milk marketing can work to reduce volatility. These links will help you to identify current milk prices, trends, and opportunities to manage price risks.
Milk Prices
- Missouri Milk Prices and Basis: HTM or XLS
- Basic Milk Pricing Concepts (Wisconsin)
- Basis and Its Importance (Penn State)
- Class III Milk: Futures and Options (CME)
- Class IV Milk: Futures and Options (CME)
- Butter: Futures and Options (CME)
- MILC Payments (USDA)
- Global Dairy Trade
- Factors That Affect Farm-gate Milk Prices (Penn State)
Risk Management
- Dairy Futures and Options Tutorial (Wisconsin)
- Introduction to Trading Dairy Futures and Options (CME)
- Put Options as Price Insurance (Kentucky)
- Options on Dairy Futures (Kentucky)
- Dairy Futures Contracts (Kentucky)
- Forward Contracting, Hedging, and Options (Kentucky)
- Using Milk Futures to Lock In Profitability (Penn State)
Commercial Brokers
Milk Price Outlook
- Bob Cropp's Monthly Outlook (Wisconsin)
- Dairy Outlook (Penn State)
- Understanding Dairy Markets (Wisconsin)
USDA Reports
- Milk Production (USDA-NASS)
- Dairy Outlook (USDA-ERS)
- Dairy Outlook Data (USDA-ERS)
- Dairy Imports and Exports (USDA-FAS)
- Dairy Programs and Service (USDA-AMS)
- Dairy Market News (USDA-AMS)
- Dairy Product Production (Cheese Mkt. News)
Milk Market Administrators
Milk Marketing Topics
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