Cost of Production
The conversation surrounding the farmers’ share of the food dollar can spark emotions of unfairness, but John Phipps thinks those type of attitudes are mistaken. He explains why in John’s World.
Advance planning can help prune your cost of production.
Is using the Exchange Traded Fund to avoid grain storage fees a viable option? John Phipps answers a viewer’s question in this week’s Customer Support.
As farms change hands, rural internet access improves and reliable online options increase, virtual shopping for inputs is expected to continue to grow.
Penny pinching could be the difference between making, or losing, money next season.
University of Illinois (U of I) recently released crop budgets for three regions in Illinois based on historical returns and costs to discover dismal profit forecasts for the 2019 season.
John Piotti of American Farmland Trust has dedicated his career to preserving rural farms and the local economies they support in the Northeast, and now he’s taking his message to the rest of the United States.
Being able to variable-rate plant corn by management zone has delivered a 15% reduction in annual seed corn costs.
While commodity prices stay in the dumps, input costs haven’t taken the same nosedive.