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Margot Rudstrom
Interest Areas
* Farm management, with an emphasis on dairy.
* Marketing plans and price risk management for dairy farmers
* Economics of forage based livestock systems
* Structural change in dairy industry.
Current Research
* Comparing the costs of growing dairy heifers on alfalfa pastures an in feedlots
* Economic comparison of small scale confinement and grazing systems
* Technology adoption on dairy farms
* Dairy farm input spending patterns of different size dairy farms
Outreach Programs
* Dairy Options Pilot Program
* Strategic Planning for Dairy Farmers
* Achieving Risk Management Success (dairy marketing plans)
Recent Publications
Dairy Grazing Economics
Stearns County Dairy Farming
Grazing growing dairy heifers
TMR adoption on Stearns County dairy farms
E-mail: rudstrmv@mrs.umn.edu
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