During low-margin years, farmers should consider carefully four main areas to maintain a strong financial position.
A group of Florida cattlemen help others during clean up following Hurricane Helene, but this isn't the first time the group has volunteered to...
Alan Brugler, a DTN consulting analyst, is president of Brugler Marketing and Management LLC, a marketing-advisory, education and consulting service. From 1992-2002 he was senior analyst and then director of analysis for DTN AgDaily. Before that he was director of market information services for the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. Alan grew up on a grain and dairy farm in northeast Ohio that his family still operates.
Alan holds bachelor's and master's degrees in agricultural education from Ohio State University. He is registered with the National Futures Association as a Commodity Trading Adviser.
Alan is the author of the Ag Market Professional and Special Research Reports subscription newsletters. He invented the Brugler Cycle Indicator (BCI), which is available on DTN. He contributes to Successful Farming and Buckeye Farm News magazines and appears regularly on Market to Market, U.S. Farm Report, AgWeb and DTN On Air.
USDA's annual Prospective Plantings report gives producers time to change plans if the market they have been targeting is at risk of being oversupplied because everyone else went in the same direction over the winter. But...