Trimble Agriculture

JULY 26, 2023

The combination of these events will strain farm finances. AgAmerica can help you review your finances and understand if debt consolidation can save you time and money in the long run. It is our mission to provide flexible financing options to help farmers recover and thrive. The perceived financial health of U.S.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 23, 2023

The choice between taking out a loan to finance the equipment or forgo it can make a big impact on your farm labor needs. Precision Farming There are hundreds of use cases for precision farming technology , but cattle farmers in Arizona have been using it to tame their rapidly growing enemy—the pear cactus.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 4, 2025

Farm Business Plan Ideas Whether you are planning to raise cattle, sheep, pigs, or oysters, or grow corn, vegetables, or flowers, having a business plan can help you keep you organized and remind you where to go next. Is it beef cattle, dairy cows, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, etc? Where will you keep track of your finances?

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 7, 2024

Financial Tools Farmers need reliable data and tools to manage their finances effectively. Financial Health Check Tool Farm Loan Calculator AgAmerica’s free farm loan calculator helps rural landowners estimate their loan payments and determine the best financing options for their operations. Click the link below.

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ProAg

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Currently a senior at Kansas State University, Baylee is studying agricultural economics with a finance specialty. Taylor Criswell grew up east of Lubbock, Texas, where both sides of her family raise cattle and farm cotton. I think there’s just less cattle out there in general.” She is set to graduate in December 2023.

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ProAg

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Currently a senior at Kansas State University, Baylee is studying agricultural economics with a finance specialty. Taylor Criswell grew up east of Lubbock, Texas, where both sides of her family raise cattle and farm cotton. I think there’s just less cattle out there in general.” She is set to graduate in December 2023.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

People unfamiliar with modern farming may find this hard to imagine, as many still have a mental image of agriculture that involves iconic scenes from Hollywood movies of lean farmers and ranchers riding horses, herding cattle, and tending to the land using manual labor. Farmers used to walk everywhere.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

JULY 30, 2024

Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) is an essential tool for cattle and swine producers seeking to protect their investments from falling commodity prices. Here at Farm Credit of Southern Colorado , we’re committed to providing the resources and support you need to navigate the complexities of agricultural finance and risk management.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Animal and Livestock Commodity Prices Cattle and Calves In 2022, dry weather reduced the amount of pasture available for grazing, forcing many ranchers to send a higher-than-average number of cattle to slaughter, driving quantity up and demand down. Our range of loan options allows your financing to be as adaptable as you.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. In addition to organic practices including composting and perennial cover crops, he added a silvopasture for his grass-fed cattle. They were a rough crew of sheep!” Johnson laughs. They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.”

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Still, there’s no question farm finances are much tighter than they were just two years ago.” In contrast, cattle prices increased in 2023, and further increases are expected in 2024 and 2025. • Hog, poultry and milk prices all declined in 2023 as demand weakened.

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Agwired

MARCH 18, 2024

Cattle raisers impacted by wildfires in the Texas Panhandle and Western Oklahoma can apply for financial aid through the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) Disaster Relief Fund. IDFA adds Becky Rasdall to the Executive Team and expands the responsibilities of Tom Wojno and Colin Newman.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 20, 2022

We’ll have Abram Bowerman, a young 24-year-old farmer in the Midwest who is bootstrapping a sheep operation, self-financed, and fully employed. Steve Kenyon, farm business guru, who doesn’t really own land or cattle but successfully leaped into full-time farming more than a decade ago on rented land with custom-grazing agreements.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Cindy, a cattle rancher, shares her experience: "The Farmbrite software is very user-friendly! Making Informed Decisions with Farmbrite Farmbrite doesn't just help you manage your finances; it empowers you with insights into your farm's production and productivity. Farmbrite makes my bookkeeping job simple!

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

America’s cattle producers need a Secretary of Agriculture who will protect family farms and ranches, roll back crushing regulations, and stand up for rural values—and we look forward to working with Secretary-Designate Rollins to make it happen.” 5 during CattleCon 2025 in San Antonio, Texas. 5 during CattleCon 2025 in San Antonio, Texas.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning. Here are some options for financing your farm and getting access to land ownership: The government's Farm Service Agency provides loans to new farmers for land ownership.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

Cattle, hog, poultry and milk prices all increased in 2022. One factor that could explain this projected drop in farm income is the state’s livestock receipts, which were impacted by the nationwide drought that reduced cattle inventories and sale of live animals, according to RaFF interim director Scott Brown.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 13, 2024

It brought together established regen farmers, new farmers looking to transform their land and practices, alongside innovators and others shaping wider corporate and finance action. Last week saw the inaugural session of this 12-month programme, immersed in nature on a 170-acre farm in Somerset.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The church is remarkably untransparent about its finances,” Brunson said. Austin Anderson, Rex Ranch’s current general manager, previously worked at another AgReserves cattle ranch in Florida. 2] A Rex Ranch employee putting out mineral feed supplement for cattle. [3] 1] A Rex Ranch cowboy at the end of a workday. [2]

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

At a panel I attended at Goals House during Climate Week, the moderator – a sustainability head at CNN – surprised the audience by mentioning that the fertility of the Great Plains was built by bison and could be restored by grazing cattle using holistic methods. He then asked representatives from Cargill and Nestlé what they thought.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Relatively few regions in the UK are well suited for arable farming, and most upland areas are ideal only for raising cattle and sheep. These farmers would love to outwinter cattle on the permanent pastures, but weather conditions are such that they usually have to be housed for a few months. Michael Walton: cutting costs but how?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Building an array of financing options can enable different processors to provide more diverse services for producers as well. Hardworking but under-resourced small to midsize processors lack the support and the financial infrastructure in their communities to expand their capacity.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Now they sell their finished cattle, as well as those of their customers, through Dakota Angus. The regenerative agriculture consulting firm Understanding Ag, LLC , announced it will be conducting an intensive, two-day workshop on livestock economics, finance and marketing in Kansas City, Missouri, Nov.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In the 19th century, most of the land was owned by large estates and the farming was controlled by the landowners, financed in most cases by money from outside agriculture. The landowners with their expertise were proud of their estates and had sufficient finance to produce a country scene that was a pleasure to behold.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Repayment might be an issue, as well as farmers ability to grow certain crops or rebuild cattle herds due to the high costs of borrowing.” . “High interest rates will present a challenge for both long-term and short-term loans.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Cattle grazing a warm season cover crop on Vilicus Farms (Photo Credit: Vilicus Farms) On August 16, 2022 when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law, it solidified an historic investment in addressing the climate crisis and reflected key priorities lifted up by the farmers and communities that NSAC’s members serve.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

Essington Farm is situated amidst beautiful countryside with cattle and sheep grazing or resting under gnarled oak trees and well-maintained hedges along the narrow roads. There were always beef cattle, too, but Simkin liked working with the pigs. From the age of 14, he looked after a small group of pigs.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Reducing that overhead rate could free up financing for the growers who need it most. Hundreds of cattle died this summer in Iowa as the heat index climbed to 117 degrees Fahrenheit. The post ‘Nothing’s Predictable’: Extreme Weather is Ruining Farmers’ Crops and Finances appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

MARCH 25, 2024

And have there been changes in the availability and cost of financing, uh, over that period of time?” I’m a fifth-generation Oklahoma cattle rancher, married to a fourth-generation Colorado row crop farmer. And my first question for you, uh, Miss Ferris Hansen, is, can you describe the overall conditions for your business?

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Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

They can be found all over the world doing different things: some fish in rivers; some grow coffee beans or cocoa trees; some work on farms with animals like cattle or sheep. Their primary function is to manage the finances, make sure all equipment is working properly, hire and fire employees and oversee marketing and sales.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It helps you manage your inventory, finance, sales and purchases. It should also allow users to enter their own figures into these budgets, so they can update them as needed. The ability to integrate with other software (like SAP) SAP is a popular software program used by many businesses.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

The young shop manager there taught him to make sausages and burger patties by hand, and also to slaughter: sheep and cattle were bought directly from local farms and, on two days a week, the butchers used the small local abattoir to slaughter the animals. Leaving school aged 16, he walked straight into a full-time job at the butcher’s.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Farming coops can look into partnerships with beneficial businesses for things like tractors, cattle management software , crop management software , and other helpful partnerships. Credit unions provide financial services tailored to the agricultural sector, helping farmers secure loans and manage their finances more effectively.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Climate Finance Loans a Disaster for Climate-Burdened African Communities — “We indeed refuse to borrow from the arsonists to put out fire they lit to burn our livelihoods,” Mithika Mwenda of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance told IPS. Register HERE. Tea is a way of life in Azerbaijan and center stage at COP29.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In farming, youve got to pour yourself into it and it becomes your life, says Jake Beeler, a third-generation farmer in Wisconsin who partners with specialty meat company Niman Ranch to market his cattle. Our finances arent great but theyre also not bad. That mentality doesnt work, but thats whats been bred into the farming families.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

Some Lawmakers Want to Clean Up the Market Diving—and Dying—for Red Gold: The Human Cost of Honduran Lobster Avian Flu Spreads to Cattle. A highly pathogenic strain of the avian flu, known as H5N1, has spread to 16 cattle herds across six states. since late 2021—has spread to cattle, according to the Center for Disease Control.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs. Cattle Run Farm LLC: A Soil for Water Case Study Sarah Morton and Ralph Morton Greene County, Virginia Cattle Run Farm LLC is a third-generation, family-operated, and veteran-owned farm located in Greene County and the central Piedmont region of Virginia.

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