Diversification
Bri and Dustin Osborne join Grow Getters to talk about how they started Osborne Ag Services to help diversify their farm operation. Their company offers drone and light excavation services as well as grain bin management using robot technology.
Matt Boos of Agrigrowth Consulting says his most successful farmer clients always have more than one revenue stream. But there’s one strategy he recommends to help to shorten the learning curve.
Feeling the weight of a down market isn’t lost on Jeff Havens. As an entrepreneur, his entire business disappeared in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. He had to reinvent himself and his business.
In any business—and farming is a business—diversification involves the development of new products and expansion into new markets for the purpose of creating sources of revenue and reducing risk.
Communication between one generation to another can seem like talking a different language. “I suggest you approach looking at another generation with curiosity rather than judgment,” says Kim Lear of Inlay Insights.
The oilseed could be a fit now for growers in Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, southern Illinois, and parts of Alabama and Mississippi. Bunge Chevron Ag Renewables is offering a 2024/25 production program.
When a pair of sisters set out to help the family farm, they didn’t think they’d end up on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. On the debut of Grow Getters, a podcast about ag’s most creative side hustles, they tell their story.
Head to the Lone Star State, and everything is bigger, or so they say. That doesn’t only refer to big hats and big hair, it also applies to dairies, as the average size in the Panhandle hovers around 4,000 cows.
Wayne Gehrke and Carolyn Brummel share how they diversified beyond corn and soybeans and made the most of what they already had so they both could farm full time.