Miscellaneous | Midwestern BioAg

Improving Dairy Profitability

By: Midwestern BioAg Staff · Economics, Bio-Cal®, Forages, Cover Crops, Soil, Miscellaneous

To make improvements to dairy farm margins in challenging times, dairies should look “lower” to increase profitability — all the way down to the ground, according to Midwestern BioAg’s nutritionist.
“If you grow your own forages,” says the BioAg nutritionist, “we can help you improve profitability by building a fertility plan to grow a better quality, higher-yielding crop. There’s a lot of revenue potential in the soil, and we can help you unlock it.”
By taking a systems approach to dairy farm management, Midwestern BioAg consultants …

Spring 2020 Newsletter

By: Midwestern BioAg Staff · Miscellaneous

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Spring 2020 Newsletter

You Spoke. We Listened.

By: Christopher.kniffen@midwesternbioag.com · Miscellaneous

Dear Customer,
Last year, Midwestern BioAg conducted a survey to help evaluate our customer service and products. Survey participants were chosen at random, and over 360 customers responded. We gained key insight into areas where we can improve administratively, and also gained better understanding of what matters most to our customers. From the analysis, a few key findings emerged:

Soil heath matters. A majority of our customers reported that they do business with us to improve soil health on their farms.

Waking the Soil

By: Christopher.kniffen@midwesternbioag.com · Miscellaneous, Crop Yields, Nitrogen, Cover Crops

Forty-year farmer and Marine veteran Gary Rademacher never stops improving. When he first started farming near Holdingford, Minnesota in the 1970s, 100-bushel corn yields and 40-bushel soybean yields were the status-quo. “Those were bar-stool yields,” said Rademacher, “yields you could go into town and be proud of.”
Rademacher’s farm has come a long way in the past 40 years. Today, he averages 200-bushel corn and 66-bushel soybeans in the short Minnesota growing season. “If you always do everything the same, you’ll get the same yields.