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If you’re short on employees, you’re not alone. New forces are at work, and I don’t see them changing any time soon.
In my arsenal of reasons why things aren’t my fault, recent events have given me a cruise-missile-strength weapon: the supply chain.
Quick, how do you define growth in your business?
John Phipps’ Ugly Truth about Succession Planning: Unearned Wealth Brings Out the Worst in Everybody
John Phipps’ observation about the attitudes and sentiments of heirs boil down to one main issue, as he says often, the conversation becomes a philosophical, or even religious controversy.
2022 planting is just around the corner and farmers are cautiously optimistic about the year ahead.
The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to soon release details from a study of semiconductor chips it conducted last year amid a push to win funding to boost U.S. manufacturing from Congress.
After ransomware attacks hit two co-ops and an equipment auction site last year, John Phipps says his guess is tractors being hacked to override factory engine or emission controls are ripe for self-inflicted hacks.
On Dec. 10, 2021, a tornado tore across Kentucky demolishing areas in its path. Farmers and state leaders say it will be a long road to recovery with trouble sourcing even enough fencing supplies to rebuild.
Rural communities are likely to see an outbreak of the COVID-19 variant omicron later than big cities but Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci says the pandemic will eventually end.
Small, rural hospitals are struggling to keep, find or hire staff as the omicron variant begins its push across rural America. Rural healthcare advocates say it’s already creating an unsafe situation.
2021 was a strong financial year for many farmers. For 2022, input costs are rising rapidly. One ag lender cites $700 per acre in some scenarios. That means farmers will need strong yields this season to break even.
Exploiting their growing hacking skills, John Phipps says North Korea’s cybercrime against banks, and economic institutions now generate about 8% of their economy. And he says this could have an impact on agriculture.
The study PROVES it: More milk and more beef per acre when applying Pivot Bio PROVEN® 40 on corn silage at planting.
It is likely you will need to report all current business entities to the government in 2023. Any new entities must file within 14 days of formation.
The Faribault Woolen Mill continues to expand their product line and number of retail stores. It is a comeback story with roots in the days just after the Civil War.
America’s Conservation Ag Movement has a new opportunity for 10 farmers (two each) based in Arkansas, California, Indiana, Maryland and Nebraska.
A silage study conducted in a dozen demonstration plots across six silage-producing states reveals corn silage treated with Pivot Bio PROVEN® 40 produces more milk and beef per acre.
“Agriculture doesn’t have an innovation problem,” says Mississippi producer Chad Swindoll. “It has an implementation problem.”
I have long maintained everyone should be required do their own income taxes.
As a 2018 Nuffield Scholar, Archie Griffin traveled to 16 countries to study how farms can find success if their primary products are facing declining consumption, value and profit margins.
Archer Daniels Midland Company said on Tuesday it had signed a letter of intent with Wolf Carbon Solutions to build a pipeline that would capture and transport carbon.
Archie Griffin used his Nuffield International Farming scholarship to study how farms can find success if their primary products are facing declining consumption, value and profit margins.
With tax season fast approaching, we pulled this great John Phipps column from the Farm Journal archives.
This data confirms the obvious — there is plenty of income and cash in farm country and is being reflected in the record prices being paid for farmland.
The world is transforming as the COVID-19 pandemic advances technology and cultural shifts in how business is done.
I encourage farm leaders to focus less on needs to be filled season-to-season and more on needs in the 24-to-48-month horizon.
Fertilizer is cited as the No. 1 concern. Plus, 45% of farmers say their plans for this spring are being impacted by the tight machinery inventory, according to the Ag Economy Barometer.
It’s easy to knock something you know little or nothing about. Farmers who are working to adopt conservation practices on their operations face ridicule routinely. Yet their efforts now could help us all in the future.
Andrew McCrea conducted field trials using Pivot Bio PROVEN® 40 on his farm. In this article, McCrea summarizes his take on those trials and why he’s reconsidering how he uses nitrogen for the 2022 growing season.