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13 Biases That Screw Up Farm Management Decisions - Part 4
This is the final blog post in our initial series on how cognitive biases can wreak havoc with farm management decision making. Research suggests that we aren’t as rational of thinkers as we think we are. That can be especially true in an industry such as farming where so many factors influencing your financial outcome (weather, grain markets, etc) are outside of your control.
Read More »13 Biases That Screw Up Farm Management Decisions - Part 3
In this blog post, we are continuing to investigate cognitive biases and how they impact farm management decisions. Biases play a key, and often hidden, role in many of the decisions business owners make. In a business with as many decisions as farming, you need to be aware of their potential negative impact on your farm.
Read More »13 Biases That Screw Up Farm Management Decisions - Part 2
In this blog post, we are continuing to investigate cognitive biases. In particular, we are focusing on how our biases can screw up management decisions on the farm.
Read More »13 Biases That Screw Up Farm Management Decisions - Part 1
In this blog post, we are jumping into the world of cognitive biases. In particular, we are focusing on how our biases can screw up management decisions on the farm.
Read More »I Don't Understand the Fascination with Crop Tours
In this blog post, we talk about the difficulty involved with nation-wide yield predictions. These crop tours and yield predictions tend to get a lot of media attention but add little value to your farming operation.
Read More »"Harvest Profit saved me from my rent going up next year..."
In this blog post, we share with you a text message we received recently. One of our users was able to use his landlord profitability reports from Harvest Profit when negotiating his cash rent. Managing landlord (and banking) relationships is a key benefit of our farm management software.
Read More »Focus on Revenue Not Price Per Bushel
In this post, we discuss the importance of analyzing whole farm profitability rather than simply focusing on price per bushel. Our software helps with this process.
Read More »Wise Words from an Older Farmer to His Son (Re: Farm Stress)
In this blog post, we discuss a post on Twitter that we think is great that states we should all "act like a duck" in stressful situations. They're aren't many jobs with as much stress as farming so it's an applicable lesson for those in agriculture. We feel these same lessons can be applied to farm management decisions.
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