Tag: farm management
How to write a farm business plan
Sometimes farmers forget farming is our business, not just our lifestyle. Writing a business plan helps us look past daily “to do's” and envision what we want our farms to be in the future.
Specialty crop workshop set in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, March 5
BUTLER, Pa. -- Each year the Farm Service Agency fields numerous phone calls from individuals interested in starting a farming operation.
Most of the callers...
A proactive approach to pasture management
A little planning and work in the fields now could save you time during the busy grazing season.
Part II: Tips for keeping New Year’s resolutions for your farm
Farmers make New Year’s resolutions with the best of intentions, but sometimes ‘just getting through the day’ takes priority.
Part I: Making effective New Year’s resolutions for the farm
Time management, herd genetics, forage, infrastructure? Identifying areas of the farm in need of improvement is not difficult for most farmers. Deciding which areas to focus resolutions on IS.
How sharp are you as a dairy farm manager?
Production management and business management is a partnership on successful dairy farms.
USDA report: Farm profitability weakens in 2015
Farmers are pinched this year. A 38.2 percent drop in U.S. net farm income would be the largest single-year decline since 1983.
App lets dairymen collect and manage calving records in real-time
Hey dairymen, the free eCalving app is available for touchscreen mobile devices.
Harvesting crops isn’t the only thing you should be doing this...
The costs of having a forage analysis are well worth the expense and effort when feeding, selling or purchasing forages.
Harvesting (and marketing) grain in hope
More than any other time in recent memory, farmers this year are harvesting in hope. That is, their collective marketing plan is to hope that prices get better.
