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FBN's Jeff Flock talks with Kylecrest Holsteins owners Dave and Laurie Kyle about the impact of corn prices on dairy farm costs.
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You are looking at feeding time here on the Kyle dairy farm and a happy time for the -- with these day not such a happy for the dairy men and women.
Who are buying this need for now.
And 58 dollars a bushel got up to.
This killing.
It's.
Input costs are -- again.
And we can't control milk price on we can control costs so we have to be much more where.
Creative and I'm looking at what you feed right here right now what it what am -- looking at this is what I make of what.
-- -- -- -- -- -- And pain.
And their regular corn and -- soybean meal we feed -- don't.
We get from a bakery her way.
-- -- medical.
Stuff like that you had a much more efficient.
Farmers are typically hedge in the in the grains market you buy all your -- I'm I'm looking at the new hedge that you you to open the coffee shop in downtown.
To try hedging -- -- -- -- more of the.
Yes I did I am.
-- money that I have invest there when I was eighteen with my father and I decided.
Because I couldn't pull it out of appearing mean I had no business doing that and I decided to open a coffee shop flare of hope really amount SE -- and -- talking.
And has been going great because -- and I are very rooted in this community and we have a great following.
People around her and how things work we think all others a dairy farm price support him out there at this point the price is fine.
The input costs that are killing you you don't get anything from Gary per port us now.
-- milk price has dropped dramatically to.
Support our.
It's actually -- -- -- -- costs are actually hired for.
I'll it would do.
Any lower.
Bin farming and she were -- -- with you guide your grandfather.
This kind of price and you raise a little bit of corn but not enough to meet all your own needs you've never seen -- like this -- -- and now I'm.
Back in.
Early two thousands of your bank or for 2:50 am.
Now.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Kyle family dairy farm a record Wisconsin where.
Not only here but elsewhere around the country.
Farmers losing thirty cent a gallon dairy farmers on every gallon they produce -- -- business -- that --
