Harvest Profit Ag

03/28/2025

🌾 Maximize your farm's profitability with HarvestProfit! Discover how real-time cost tracking, field-level analysis, and profit-focused marketing plans can transform your operations. Read more on our blog:

Ben Longlet is a Digital Specialist at Harvest Profit, where he leverages his expertise to enhance farm profitability. Growing up on a farm in Amenia, ND, Ben remains actively involved in his family's farming operations. He pursued his education at Lake Region State College, specializing in precisio...

03/26/2025

It isn't easy to calculate your cost of production and field-by-field profitability with a variety of different crop share structures. This is one of the more complicated things we've built at HarvestProfit.com. You can now analyze how their structures perform vs each other from both a gross income and net income standpoint.

03/26/2025

Negotiating farm rents is hard. Check out this blog post for ideas for your operation. We also walk through a hypothetical rent vs. "let it go" decision.

This blog post walks through a cash rent negotiation framework and analyzes a tough hypothetical cash rent decision.

03/25/2025

Farming is filled with uncertainty. Uncertainty makes proactive decision making difficult. Harvest Profit's mission to help you battle uncertainty by giving you more visibility into your profitability and cost of production. Click here to try a no-strings-attached 14-day free trial: http://bit.ly/2Fa0M9X

03/25/2025

Farmers need to be able to dry all their own corn (via air, LP, or NG). If you don't, you're likely leaving thousands of $$ on the table.

This blog post calculates the cost of on-farm vs. commercial grain drying. Hint: on-farm grain drying typically offers a great ROI.

03/24/2025

Check out this great farm benchmarking resource from the University of Minnesota

FINBIN is one of the largest and most accessible sources of farm financial and production benchmark information in the world. FINBIN places detailed reports on whole farm, crop, and livestock financials at your fingertips.

03/23/2025

Check out this HarvestProfit.com review from Mark Olson of M&J Olson Farms (Enderlin, ND). We're glad we can help Mark! By the way, keep your eyes open re: your grain cart comment! If you'd like a no strings attached free trial of Harvest Profit to see if it's a fit for your farm, go here: http://bit.ly/2Fa0M9X

03/23/2025

“In the next few years, intellectual capital versus financial capital will not only be a barrier to entry into agriculture, but also to the ability to perform throughout economic cycles, market shifts, and structural adjustments that can occur rapidly in the industry.” - Dr. David Kohl

In this blog post, we discuss an article by Dr. David Kohl where he outlines the need for farms to have intellectual capital not just financial capital. We also look into what you need to do to put your farm in the top 20% of operations when it comes to intellectual capital/farm management factor.

03/22/2025

One of our customers reached out and let us know that he used our software to have a number-based negotiation with one of his landlords. This is just one use case for our easy-to-use, fully-burdened field-by-field profitability tracking.

In this blog post, we share with you a text message we received recently. One of our users was able to use his landlord profitability reports from Harvest Profit when negotiating his cash rent. Managing landlord (and banking) relationships is a key benefit of our farm management software.

03/22/2025

We think farmers should embrace "the funds" impact on grain markets. The key is to take advantage of upside volatility....

In this blog post, we discuss a theme heard frequently in farm country: "the grain markets are rigged in favor of speculators". Rather than blame them, you should embrace the volatility they've added. In addition, you can use our farm management software to put systems in place to take advantage of....

03/21/2025

In a cyclical business like farming, it's an unfortunate fact that some participants will face the need to restructure their balance sheets. Here are some thoughts from an ag lender on how to successfully navigate these tough situations.

In this blog post, we revist an uncomfortable topic: farm foreclosure and bankruptcy. In particular, we get feedback from an farm banker on how to maintain a successful farm-bank relationship during tough times. A collaborative relationship combined with sticking to past plans is the path to achievi...

03/21/2025

Market your grain like an elevator!

Grain Storage Return on Investment