US: 2023 brings concerns and opportunities in the commonwealth

The staff of Pennsylvania’s Center for Dairy Excellence (CDE) are regular partners with Progressive Dairy in providing risk management, business management and other information vital for dairy producers. Expanding on Progressive Dairy’s annual “State of Dairy” outlook for the northeast U.S., Zach Myers, risk education manager, and Jayne Sebright, executive director, provide insights on current conditions and future challenges and opportunities as 2023 gets underway. Moods are mixed Entering the new year, the moods of Pennsylvania dairy producers are a mix of uncertainty and frustration. The uncertainty, Myers says, hinges on the fact that while 2022 marked a good year in the milk price cycle, the price outlook is weaker for the first half of 2023, and input costs remain high. The frustration, Sebright explains, relates to restrictions on growth, even though 2022 put many producers in better positions to grow their milk production and potentially invest in modest expansion ...