Hog Management
Use the topics and tools included in The DIRTT Project to jump-start the succession planning process for your operation whether you are just beginning or need to get on track.
This month’s Rural Mainstreet Index marks the fifth-straight month where the index has been below the growth neutral mark.
How much is a farm at risk from a technical tsunami?
Mark Faust shares objectives in seven key areas that can intensify your operation’s vision, divergence and focus.
Rena Striegel’s workshop at the upcoming Top Producer Summit will leave attendees with four main takeaways.
For long-term success, farm leaders should regularly assess the landscape of their operation and adjust their strategies accordingly.
These 10 steps can help keep your employees from walking away.
If your available labor pool seems to be getting more shallow, Rachel Beardsley, partner at Fragomen, an immigration law firm, says ag business managers can think more creatively.
The difference between strategy and serendipity is small when you are prepared.
Understand the cyber risks you face — and how to reduce your exposure.
Here’s how you can avoid committing these harmony-harming mistakes.
Collect and analyze the best financial data to aid decisions on your farm operation.
In your will or trust documents, you name a power of appointment. This means you grant power to an individual to name recipients of all or a portion of your money and property in the future.
How do you set your farm on a profitable and exciting trajectory? Surround yourself with smart people, and then give and take.
“You can begin at any point in the year, but the power of this is that by improving yourself first, others follow,” says Mark Faust, president of Echelon Management.
Follow this strategy to reduce turnover and increase morale on your farm team.
As you look at transitioning leadership and ownership of your farm to the next generation, be ready to tackle entitlement issues.
The July Ag Economists’ Monthly Monitor showed several key changes from June including a bigger cut to corn and soybean yields, a drop in corn and soybean prices and more bullish cattle and hog prices.
Matt and Lisa Moreland hoped at least one of their sons would return home to farm after college. What they didn’t anticipate? All three sons wanted to come back. Here are four things the family learned in the process.
To boost employee retention, farms need leaders who can effectively inspire and guide others. The job often requires its leaders to possess a handful of characteristics not necessarily used on other areas of the farm.
Having another financing option can make all the difference when the right opportunity comes your way.
We are more than the hours we work and the services we provide. We are people, friends, family, and community. You are important, you are loved, and you are worthy of conversation, caring, and love.
An artist recently used artificial intelligence to create a painting without a brushstroke or pencil line. What does it mean for agriculture? John Phipps explains why the connection might be closer than you think.
With new features, John Deere has added options specific for hay, livestock, commercial and other operator categories.
Dive into these 13 trends that could impact your farm.
Kansas State research looks at dosage and timing of iron injections in order to maximize pig growth.
In hot-box style, five diverse farm technologies—Salin 247, Susterre, Phinite, BovIQ, and Holganix—took center stage at Top Producer Summit in Nashville, Tenn., on Feb. 15.