An editorial by Sevie Kenyon compiled by Denise Mullinax W e love it when people make positive efforts to take charge of their lives and their businesses. So often in agriculture, much of what you deal with is beyond your control. W eather and markets are interesting topics. You can profit or lose based on what happens in weather or markets, so you're intimately interested. A roof over your dairy herd, like a roof over your head, is a method of coping, if not controlling, weather effects.
T here are the milk markets.
For many years, milk has been a tightly controlled market. Those controls served as a coping mechanism, protecting dairy producers such as you from market effects. T he nature of market controls on the dairy industry is changing. Reform of the system is underway and we're sticking with the opinion that when the effort is over, you won't see a lot of difference. A t least we believe this in relation to federal milk market reform.