Feed costs are squeezing margins on many dairy farms.

Wayne Schoper with South Central College in Mankato, Minnesota says cost of production is a wild card.

“Feed costs per hundredweight were $9.60, so to produce a hundredweight of milk you spend $9.60 on feed. And that includes purchased feed, that includes corn silage or whatever you’re feeding. Hay, haylage, a lot of guys like to feed high-moisture corn.”

He tells Brownfield those costs will likely hover between $13 and $14 per hundredweight next year.

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