How to Calculate Your Sustainable Growth Rate

To evaluate if your operation should expand, calculate your sustainable growth rate. Put simply, this metric shows the maximum rate of growth a farm can maintain without increasing financial leverage or obtain outside financing.

Leverage Cover Crops to Reduce Costs

“This study shows a subset of participants in a corn-soybean rotation area able to offset those costs [for cover crops] by finding a yield advantage, reducing inputs or both to improve overall profitability,” said Heath Ellison, Iowa Soybean Association senior conservation agronomist in a recent press release.

Online Training: Growing Hemp From A to Z

In this one-hour online training, Certified Crop Advisor Bryan Parr educates farmers on the basics of how to grow hemp for grain or fiber. Click here to learn more or to register.

Input Security in Times of Crisis

When it comes to safety and input security, select suppliers tell farmers to rest assured: product will get to your door.

Coronavirus Will Constrain U.S. Meat Supply Despite Trump Order -Tyson

The coronavirus crisis will continue to idle U.S. meat plants and slow production, Tyson Foods Inc said on Monday, signaling more disruptions to the U.S. food supply after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered facilities to stay open.

Calculate How Your Farm is Doing

Track profitability, calculate ROI, connect with buyers, and more. All of this right from the palm of your hand or even from the seat of the combine. Learn more here.

Drones, Data Could Track Cattle Health

Drones with thermal imaging cameras have been buzzing over a research feedlot near Amarillo, as researchers develop test methods to identify feverish animals before they show symptoms of illness.

Join our $100 Ideas Club

Think you have an idea worth $100 – or even $200? Submit it here! Upon publication in Farm Journal, the Double Your Money winner receives $200. Other farmers featured receive $100 each.

John Phipps: COVID-19 Herd Immunity May Be Complicated

The idea of "herd immunity" may be complicated in combatting COVID-19. John Phipps explains in John's World.

American Farmers #FarmON

Farming can also be family time. Even in the face of COVID-19, farmers are resilient as ever. Click here to see the photos submitted by your fellow farmers. Then share how you #FarmON by texting FarmON to 31313 to submit your photo or video.

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