Seven financial steps top managers enact  Seven financial steps
top managers enact  by Gary Sipiorski  milking in a parlor
Getting a firm handle on farm financials will be critical to
long-term business success. If your operation needs to get up to
speed, now would be a good time as milk prices are favorable by
historic standards and feed prices are moderating.  Here we are
in yet another year with continual changes and uncertainty. Have
you figured that this is a never-ending occurrence on the
business side of agriculture? One of the biggest common unknowns
is the weather. Regardless if you raise all of your forage and
grain or you buy it, everyone is affected one way or another by
weather. We still cannot cover the fields and dairy with a
protective tent or greenhouse. Just like the weather is always
with you, the farm financials will always be with you.  Even
with unpredictable weather and markets, there are dairy
producers who not only survive but continue to make constant
progress. Maybe not so much in