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Grain Marketing Through the Noise
In this blog post, we share some feedback from our customers. With a focus on how they are using software to cut through the grain marketing noise to make decisions that work for their farm and bottom line.
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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 »Learn from Three Commodity Trading Blow Ups
In this blog post, we discuss a trend we are seeing in the market. More and more companies are offering grain marketing related services. Most are high-quality but during periods of low prices there are always a few trying to sell you "it sounds too good to be true" offers. In many cases, they are!
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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