Business Planning

Set your farm up for future success by building a strong business plan. This section covers additional aspects of business planning, including lending, taxes, and working capital.

Rebuilding from the Rubble

After a devastating tornado demolishes their farm, the Peterson family is determined to persevere.

A mangled blue silo crushes a white barn after a tornado struck this Minnesota farm on September 20, 2018

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Join the Global Marketplace With Your Ag Products

Want to export your ag products? Here are basics to consider and resources to tap.

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How to Farm with Family

Family farms are unique amid business entities because the business focus is continually being juggled with the family focus.

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Agronomy Insider

Brewing Sake

By Agronomy Insider

There’s an emerging craft brew that’s opening a new market for farmers who can grow rice. The sake business is heating up.

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Wheat

Q&A: Catherine Feuillet, Geneticist and Molecular Biologist

By Women in Agriculture

Catherine Feuillet’s passion for pushing new frontiers, challenging herself, and building something that could benefit others has always propelled her forward.

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Machinery Insider

Sharing Farm Equipment

By Machinery Insider

Reduce machinery costs by jointly owning the equipment with another farmer. Sharing spreads the cost over more acres.

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Starting A Local Food Co-Op

If you’re having a tough time marketing your food products, form a local cooperative in your community. There’s power in numbers.

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Identify and Resolve 4 Levels of Conflict on Your Farm

When resolving conflicts with other people remember the behavior and how people act causes conflict, not personalities or culture, says Donita Whitney-Bammerlin of Kansas State University.

Colorado farmers look at a field of freshly mowed alfalfa

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Brainstorming New Enterprises for Your Farm

When Andrew Dixon graduated from high school, he and his parents began brainstorming new businesses that might make room for him financially on his family’s farm.

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ARC/PLC Enrollment Is Open, Farmers Urged to Wait

If the owner accompanies the producer to the office, the yield update may be completed during the same office visit.

A farmer using a tablet in a soybean field.

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Q&A with Shari Rogge-Fidler, CEO of Family Farms LLC

Shari Rogge-Fidler is a former investment banker, strategy and agribusiness consultant, cofounder of an organic food company, and a fifth-generation farmer from Nebraska.

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13 Things Successful Grain Farmers Do

Jim Knuth, senior vice president of Farm Credit Services of America, shared characteristics of the company’s most successful grain farming customers at the Iowa Farm Bureau Economic Summit.