SW Financial Literacy It is difficult to begin generating income to grow your farming operation. One poor decision can take years to...

SW Financial Literacy Getting a new ag real estate loan? 6 questions you should be asking your lender: Should you make a larger down...

SW Financial Literacy As buying farms gets more expensive, oftentimes farmers don’t feel they have the proper cash position to pursue the...

SW Financial Literacy Owning real estate comes with a lot of advantages. There are loan programs and buying options to help lower the...

SW Financial Literacy I sometimes run into confusion when a farmer is working to update their balance sheet after a recent transaction....

SW Financial Literacy Situation: Farmer heard some rumblings that a land might be moving and reached out to the owner expressing interest...

NW Call to Action I posed this question to X and received 90 responses: “Fungicide pays. Tile pays. What else do you swear by that is...

SW When working a new loan request or updating financials, I will occasionally receive an updated balance sheet pulled from a bookkeeping...

SW The example shows a 67% decrease in Working Capital and almost $600,000 of Net Worth (Total Equity) losses over a 5 year period....

SW Purchase agreements can be difficult to understand and even intimidating if you don’t know what they contain. I always recommend...

NW Timing the market and always buying farm ground or cattle at the lowest price point is nearly impossible. There are thousands of...

NE While I expect U.S. yields to be lower than today’s estimates once the January production report comes out, I don’t expect much of a...

NE 5 tracts sold at public auction on August 29th through BigIronRealty. Hamilton Co Nebraska ground located 1-5 miles north of Aurora,...

NE Pro Farmer had a corn yield of 172.0 bu/a corn and 49.7 bu/a soybeans. This compares to the Aug WASDE of 175.1 on corn and 50.9...

SW Yes, land prices are at all time highs and interest rates are double where they were 18 months ago. Land is still a good investment...

SW Find balance between paying cash and financing. Just because you have cash doesn’t mean you should only buy with cash. 7.50% financing...