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Ten Ways to Increase Your Farm's Profits in 2019

By AgFuse Exclusive Content

Published 3 months ago

Part 1: Know Your True Cost of Production Why Your TCOP Matters How to Calculate Your TCOP Part 2: Take the Emotions Out of Your Marketing Plan Why You Need a Plan How to Create a Marketing Matrix How to Determine Your Marketable Inventory How to Use a Marketing Matrix Why You Need an Accountability Partner Part 3: Replace Dead Assets What Are Dead Assets? What Are Productive Assets? Part 4: Manage Your Cash Flow Conversion Cycle What a Cash Flow Conversion Cycle Is How to Speed Up Incoming Flows How to Postpone Outgoing Flows How to Minimize Paying Interest Part 5: Start Using Cover Crops ... In the columns across the top, we will place target prices. The first column will be your TCOP plus 5% and then every subsequent column will show an increase of 5% based on the preceding column... In the top-left intersection of the rows and columns (which, in the following example, is the intersection of “January” and “$4... ” Then, for every column over, we want to add 10% until we reach a total of 50%...

Categories: Agribusiness, Marketing, Cover Crops

Citizens Weekly Newsletter January 18, 2019

By Angie Setzer

Published 4 days ago

This Week in AgricultureA Mixed Bag of Information from the Week that Was: January 18, 2019· With the government shutdown looking to continue on indefinitely traders are adjusting to life with minimal information flowing, focusing more on cash grain values, freight movement, export inspections and the rumor mill to generate direction. · Export inspections this week came in above the high side of expectations, and much higher than levels seen throughout the holidays, but below levels needed to meet current USDA estimates. CIF (export bids) values have shown some strength this week for corn and wheat likely indicating buying interest increased, especially with the recent move lower in futures. Soybean values have remained relatively steady, though traders are aware bids have returned to the Pacific Northwest after most buyers had nothing posted throughout harvest... · The second was a bit more interesting as a major newspaper reported Treasury Secretary Mnuchin claims the US will roll back all of the import tariffs it has place on China thus far in an expression of goodwill...

Categories: Agribusiness

Traditional Procedures To Qualify For A Bank Loan For Agriculture Lending VS Agrilend

By Robert Morgan

Published 7 months ago

Traditionally Farmers have to go through a serious of banking procedures to qualify for a loan and just that process can be a very expensive undertaking and investment for the already distressed agricultural business. The procedures common and absolutely necessary and does not always guarantee a loan will proceed with a bonafide commitment from the bank or lender. These procedures are feasibility studies, environmental studies, certified business valuations, real estate appraisals, and even equipment appraisals. The process is time consuming which may endure many months and cost can range from $30,000-$250,000. 00 for a possible investment loan from the bank or lender with fees that are non refundable...

Pencil Out Fungicide Profitability

By Amanda Allworth

Published 7 months ago

Will it pay to apply a fungicide? That’s the million-dollar question for farmers looking to boost production on a limited budget. The honest answer is, it depends. At a time when every input dollar matters, here are some tips to help maximize your profitability on fungicide applications. Your RiskEach year brings different environmental conditions, which is why most fungicide sales are made in-season... The left column of graphs shows probabilities when disease pressure is low, while the right column shows probabilities of not breaking even when disease impacts more than 5 percent of the ear leaf at the R4 to R6 growth stage...

Categories: Agribusiness, Corn

How can Farmers get Paid Right Now By Becoming an Agrilend Member

By Robert Morgan

Published 7 months ago

Agricultural Businesses or Farmers for the last few centuries have relied on Fiat Currency. In Monetary economics, fiat money is an intrinsic value object or record and is widely used as a means of payment. Investment Bankers can monitor its supply in circulation by the money aggregates, M1,M2,M3, or M4. However for a farmer who relies on goods being exchanged Fiat has several disadvantages, especially for Agricultural Farmers who produce today hoping to get paid tomorrow for the commodities they produce. Fiat Money does not have for today's farmer utility or use value...

Diversity in Agriculture: How Diverse & Inclusive is the Industry?:

By AgCareers.com Team

Published 7 months ago

We hear a lot of chatter about workplace diversity. Employers often allocate resources to recruiting diverse talent and are quick to tell candidates how welcoming of a work environment they'll find. Job seekers want to know they are going to work for an organization that welcomes diversity in its most traditional sense, as well as a broader scope that accounts for diversity of thought and experiences. At AgCareers. com we recognize that as agriculture itself has diversified, so has its workforce...

Categories: Agribusiness

Announcing the Winner of AgFuse’s 30 Days of Cover Crops Photo Contest

By AgFuse Administrator

Published 8 months ago

Yesterday, our 30 Days of Cover Crops Photo Contest came to a close. All of the entries we received are amazing and we want to thank everyone who participated. As previously announced, the winning photo is the entry with the most engagements, which we define as the sum of likes and shares, and the winner will receive an Orion Cooker... Justin Ramer Posted on AgFuse Beans popping through after overnight rain shower nestled in between the cereal rye Caleb Wolters Posted on AgFuse Corn growing in rye cover #dontfarmnaked We also want to highlight two honorable mentions: Justin Ramer of Walton, Indiana, and Caleb Wolters of Belmont, Wisconsin. Justin Ramer Posted on AgFuse Beans popping through after overnight rain shower nestled in between the cereal rye Caleb Wolters Posted on AgFuse Corn growing in rye cover #dontfarmnaked Caleb Wolters Posted on AgFuse Corn growing in rye cover #dontfarmnaked Thanks again to everyone for being part of the fun...

How Farmers can cash in big with the Agrilend new digital international crypto-currencies.

By Robert Morgan

Published 7 months ago

For decades, Agricultural businesses have been at the mercy of external as well as internal factors all disregarded by their reliant financial institutions for a multitude of complexities essential for business operations. From export, import, credit, financing, trade, as well as political turmoil or price fluctuations in commodity prices, gold, silver, currency exchanges, interest rates, and bond prices to name a few. A new international encrypted digital crypto-currency is being developed right now by Agrilend, LLC founders to be used exclusively for farmers and will position an initial coin offering in the not so distant future. Farmers who need cash are not usually technologically savvy and are used to the old fashioned ways of having the bank lend, they are now seeking investment but also wanting to remain anonymous, the same as many private investors are seeking anonymity. Welcome to the Green Coin...

How the small Farmer can Acquire more Farms using Leverage.

By Robert Morgan

Published 7 months ago

Going Private and Leveraged BuyoutGoing private refers to the transformation of a public corporation into a privately held firm. A leveraged buyout (LBO), financed largely by borrowing, is the acquisition of the stock or assets of a public company by a small group of investors. The buying group may be sponsored by buyout specialists or by investment bankers. A variant of the LBO going-private transaction is the management buyout (MBO) in which a segment of the company is sold to its managers. Since 1981, unit MBOs have represented more than 10 percent of total divestitures...

Categories: Agribusiness, Beef Cattle, Soybeans

Bolivia- Key to Pharmaceutical Industry & Agriculture.

By Robert Morgan

Published 6 months ago

Bolivia, a Member of The MERCOSUR has been South America’s most politically unstable country, with more than 200 coups since independence was achieved in 1825. Left-wing indigenous leader Evo Morales, a former coca grower, was elected president in late 2005, promising to restore Bolivian control over the country’s natural resources. Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in South America. Bolivia is also a major center of drug production and it is likely that drug production will increase as it shifts southwards due to the crackdown in Colombia. Bolivia is a landlocked country, having lost its coastline in a war with Peru in the late 19th century...