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Managing Prosperity In The Beef Industry

An Alberta Agriculture specialist says, as the cow-calf business continues to provide strong margins, and producers look at where to invest their positive margins, the question becomes what to invest those positive margins in. In a presentation now available from Cow-Calfenomics risk management series, Rick Dehod, farm financial specialist, recommends producers first know their business costs with a goal of reducing those costs, not only when the farm is losing money, but also during the good years when margins improve.

Interview with Rick Dehod (3:29 minutes) (1.60 Mb)

Source : agric.gov.ab.ca

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