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I hope this article finds all of you in the middle of a successful harvest. We have some spot loss situations due to hail, wind, flood, disease and in some cases, loss of nitrogen due to excess moisture. For the most part, however, I have heard about excellent yields. Please consider the following key points at harvest time:

• Keep production records by unit. Mark your grain bins and identify all scale tickets by unit. Split tickets are NOT acceptable in the event of a claim.
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AgStart Jump-Starts Young Farmers

by Mark Parker

Andrew and Emily Schrader were up against a cold hard fact that everyone in agriculture knows all about:

Getting a start in farming or ranching is a mighty tough row to hoe for a young person. Andrew had the skills, he had the desire and he had the commitment. What he and Emily lacked was the capital necessary for a traditional loan down payment.

And that’s where Frontier Farm Credit’s AgStart program offered a leg-up. “It’s a great program,” Andrew says. “Frankly, I don’t think we could have done it any other way. We save what we can, but it would have taken a long time to come up with the money for this particular opportunity and by that time, it would have been gone.” Continue Reading>>