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The Complete Guide to Growing and Scaling Your Farm Business

The Complete Guide to Growing and Scaling Your Farm Business

Growing a farm business can be a complicated venture. The questions that need to be answered include everything from big picture items to tedious tidbits.

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Want to Rent More Farm Ground? Master the Farming Cash Rent Economy

Want to Rent More Farm Ground? Master the Farming Cash Rent Economy

FarmOp Capital’s production-based loans help close the lending gap by offering operating loans based on your ability to produce a crop, not the land you own.

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Homestead Family Farms: How Partnering with an Expansion-Minded Lender Changed the Game

Homestead Family Farms: How Partnering with an Expansion-Minded Lender Changed the Game

There are a lot of variables that go into a lending relationship and you're making a mistake if you just focus on the interest rate.

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Find the Right Lender to Help Your Farming Operation Grow

Find the Right Lender to Help Your Farming Operation Grow

Partnering with the right people, especially when it comes to your operating loan, can make a world of difference as you manage or expand your farm business.

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Timing is Everything in Farming, Including When it Comes to Borrowing Cash

Timing is Everything in Farming, Including When it Comes to Borrowing Cash

Most farm operating loans are signed after the first of the year and even well into spring, but when you borrow farm operating capital matters.

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What is Crop Production-Based Lending, and How does it Help a Growing Farm Business?

What is Crop Production-Based Lending, and How does it Help a Growing Farm Business?

With landowners often deciding to keep owned land and renting it out as an income source, many younger farmers and large farming operations are forced to rent farm ground to grow their businesses.

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What Does Your Farm’s Annual Operating Loan Actually Cost?

What Does Your Farm’s Annual Operating Loan Actually Cost?

Crop production-based loans, like those offered by FarmOp Capital, are often incorrectly associated with an overall higher price tag if they have a higher interest rate.

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Reevaluating Your Farm’s Operating Loan? Start Here.

Reevaluating Your Farm’s Operating Loan? Start Here.

The right choice for a farm’s operating loan is the lender who can get farmers more than just the lowest interest rate—it’s the lender who can help farmers transform their businesses.

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A thousand head. Multiple crops. And a lasting success story.

In addition to our more user-friendly loans structures, FarmOp recognizes that each client we work with is unique. Learn how we work hand-in-hand with Panka Farms to help their operations be as successful as possible.

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2021 Farm Sector Income Forecasts

Forecasting farm sector income for the year is like forecasting the weather. There are indicators of what’s coming, but that can change quickly depending on a near-infinite number of factors. Let’s start by looking back at 2020 to see if it applies to 2021.

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Five Areas Where Your Farm Can Be More Efficient

Inefficiencies in your operations are like pests that infiltrate your crops and yields, robbing you of time, resources, and, ultimately, profits.

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Don’t Let Rented Acres Limit Profitability

Rented acres take a different approach to financing. But, it shouldn’t hurt farmers looking to expand. Our CEO Bill York discusses profitability.

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Lesson Learned: Cash Buyers Have More Power

There’s no such thing as free financing. Hear from Rick Snyder, our VP of Sales & Marketing, about how our model works for modern producers.

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Unfilled Prescriptions? Protect Your Farm

Not filling agronomy prescriptions can cost a farmer greatly. FarmOp Capital discusses the opportunity cost and how to avoid.

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5 Things You Should Know About Ag Lending

Our CFO discusses considerations every farmer should make when weighing operating loan terms and conditions.

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Production-Based Lenders Offer New Look

With the ability to finance up to 100% of their working capital, our model looks at helping farmers continue to grow their efficiencies through an operating loan product that works for them.

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Does Your Farm Fit One of These Trends?

Who fits well within FarmOp’s system? Well, nearly everyone. Learn more about our approach to modern production and evolving needs of operations.

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