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Assessment of Management Skills

Assessing management skills is an important part of benchmarking farm performance and figuring out where improvements may be needed.

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Farm Growth: Challenges and Opportunities

Before growing, it is essential for an operation to think about their strategic direction.

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Managing Risk: A Conversation with Kirkpatrick Farms

Kirkpatrick Farm operators, Bryan and Susan Kirkpatrick along with their daughter, Andrea, raise food-grade corn and seed soybeans with an emphasis on improving the productivity of their land.

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Managing Risk: A Conversation with Scott Farms

Scott Farms is a diversified crop farm. Operators include Brian, John, and Robert. Crops produced include corn, waxy corn, popcorn, soybeans, and seed soybeans.

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Managing Risk: A Conversation with Mylet Farms

The Mylet farm is operated by Tom and Neal Mylet (fifth and sixth generations of the Mylet family) along with input from several other family members. The farm has been in their family for more than 150 years.

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Managing Risk: A Conversation with Maple Farms

Maple Farms is a family partnership, with three generations of the family actively involved in the farm since 1975. Maple Farms primarily grows food-grade corn and seed soybeans.

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Evaluating Strategic Options

Sound strategic planning requires assessing strategic risk, which involves the sensitivity of a farm’s strategic direction, and the ultimate vulnerability and sustainability of the farm to uncertainties in the business climate.

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Assessing and Managing Strategic Risk

Managing both operational risk and strategic risk is important in today’s production agriculture environment.

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Leverage and Interest Rate Risk

Financial risk is incurred when a farm borrows money to purchase assets or operate the farm. Financial risk is caused by uncertainty pertaining to interest rates, lending relationships, changes in market value of assets used as collateral, and cash flow used to repay debt.

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Leverage and Financial Risk

Financial risk is incurred when a farm borrows money to purchase assets or operate the farm. Financial risk is caused by uncertainty pertaining to interest rates, lending relationships, changes in market value of assets used as collateral, and cash flow used to repay debt.

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