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It's True, The Market Doesn't Care About Your Farm's Breakeven
In this blog post, I discuss how "the market" doesn't care about your farm's breakeven. I dig into why you should ignore that statement when making management decisions on your farm.
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Warning: Select Your AgTech Partners Carefully!
Farmers need to be careful when selecting which AgTech companies they choose to work with in their operations. Many farm management software businesses have raised significant amounts of venture capital. These businesses are often asked to grow faster than normal to achieve their investors' desired results leading to unsustainable losses. Select your AgTech partners carefully as there will be casualties in the years to come.
Read More »Video: Prevented Planting Scenario Analysis
In this blog post, we present a video where we show you some detailed farm scenario analysis. Specifically, we use Harvest Profit's farm management software platform to do a prevented planting crop insurance analysis. Every farm is unique and there is no "one-size-fits-all" scenarios for most operations. Put tools and systems in place that work for your farm!
Read More »Using Farm Management Software to Manage a 50/50 Crop Share
In this blog post, we show you how you can use Harvest Profit to track the financial impacts of 50/50 crop shares on your farm. From input usage to cost of production tracking, we allow you to easily track these structures for you and your landlords.
Read More »The Traits of the Top 20% of Farmers vs the Bottom 20%
In this blog post, we discuss a recent presentation that Dr. David Kohl gave on traits that he believes separate the top 20% vs. bottom 20% of farmers. We also add a few traits to his list.
Read More »New Software Feature: Custom Crop Shares
In this blog post, we show you a new feature we added to Harvest Profit's farm management software: custom crop share structures. This feature allows you to create custom structures and view the impact on your field-by-field profitability.
Read More »Podcast Interview: Being a Small Fish in a Big (AgTech) Pond
Harvest Profit's founder, Nick Horob, was interviewed on the Future of Agriculture podcast recently. On it, Nick and the host discuss the current state of AgTech, what it's like to self-fund a farm software business, and what does Randy Dowdy know about growing corn in Minnesota!
Read More »Be Cautious With Exotic Grain Marketing Contracts
In this blog post, we discuss the dangers of exotic grain marketing contracts. They often sound great on the day they are presented to producers but they come with a lot uncertainty. This uncertainty can lead to producers passing up profitable grain marketing opportunities. Remember, there's no free lunch in grain marketing.
Read More »Farm Management Software Updates - April 2019
In this blog post, we highlight four recent enhancements we've made to Harvest Profit's farm management software. We've greatly minimized the effort required to set up your crop plan. We've also added flexibility to how you build your field-by-field profit reports.
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