Protecting Your Profits

About Protecting Your Profits

Managing risk and protecting your profits on a dairy farm isn’t always easy, but it’s a necessary part of running your business. Welcome to the “Protecting Your Profits” podcast – a brief monthly update designed to give you the data, production trends, and national and statewide updates you need to manage your dairy’s risk management strategy.

Publisher

Center for Dairy Excellence

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Nov 2020

Latest episode

22 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

7 of 67 episodes have a transcript.

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   22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   September 2026: Beyond milk checks, managing beef income streams with Ever.Ag

   Bryce Windecker and Owen TeVelde of Ever.Ag discuss managing beef income streams and market risks with host [Host Name] in this interview.

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   20 Jul 2026

   July 2026: Mid-year pulse check to review your dairy's financial health with Rob Goodling

   Send us Fan Mail It’s time to give your dairy a mid-year checkup and pulse check. In this month's "Protecting Your Profits" discussion, hear expert insight from Rob Goodling from Farm Credit East. He discusses the importance of budgeting and comparing how you are doing to budget, helps you review year-to-date efficiencies, and shares how to evaluate your business liquidity. Low prices in quarter one are slowly reversing, but most dairies are definitely in stressed-cash positions. How can we m...

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   26 Jun 2026

   PYP - Dairy Report Rundown 06.25.2026

   Send us Fan Mail In this June installment of the "Protecting Your Profits" miniseries, Dairy Report Rundown, we were joined by Andy McCarty with Land O' Lakes, to share his take on the most recent USDA Milk Production and Slaughter reports. Andy shared trends he noticed in both reports and what he believes they mean for the U.S. dairy industry. He also provided important updates and information on several price risk programs available to dairy farmers. To receive weekly dairy market upd...

Inside a recent episode

September 2026: Beyond milk checks, managing beef income streams with Ever.Ag

Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That's an indication that the herd is rebuilding a bit. The heifer numbers have increased uptick a little, not as much or as quickly as you would expect and not as quickly as we saw in, in 2020 or 2014, 2015. That's yeah. And then going into the cattle inventory, I'm going to go a little bit longer term there on the right. That chart shows that we are at the shortest we've been since 1953 in terms of cattle, including calves. That just gives a picture of just how few cattle we have at this point. It's a really extreme point in the cycle, but it is turning around a little bit. As you can see from that chart on the left, we're just about at the five-year average for cattle on feed. in these last couple of reports. […]

Who has been a guest on Protecting Your Profits

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Bryce Windecker
• Owen TeVelde
• Joe Bender
• Ava Hasbrook
• Jayne Sebright

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 11 / 100

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Quality

10

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

30

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