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5 Essential Habits of Farm Marketing

The word habits has sort of a negative connotation. We could make long list of negative habits. What pops into your head when you think of good habits? Exercise and brushing your teeth? Developing good habits for farm marketing takes even more...

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Grain Elevators: How Productive Is Your Labor Force?

The New Year brings a flurry of preparing financial statements and crunching financial ratios in an effort to get under the tax man’s bar or jump...

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The Fiscal Management 5 Step Plan for Grain Elevator Financing

The grain company CFO may have been viewed as a rare species prior to 2008, but the last 7 years have quickly brought the need for a CFO’s skill set...

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Preparing for the Grain Merchandising Inevitable: Part 1

It is winter and the grain elevator is abuzz with activity . . . you have old crop bushels to empty out of the bin, grain to move off the farm, and...

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8 Grain Elevator Policies That Hurt Profitability

Over the last decade of traveling the country and visiting with grain elevator managers and merchandisers, I’ve seen and heard some pretty amazing...

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Kelchen Grain Staff

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The Grain Merchandiser and the End User: Who is the Customer?

When you, the grain merchandiser, think in terms of the buyer/user being your customer – rather than you being his customer – it puts a different...

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Making a Game Plan for Farm Marketing

This time of year, with football games aplenty, basketball games on 27 out of 32 channels, and baseball just around the corner, inspires this simple...

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Black Bears, Yellow Corn, and Grain Marketing Hibernation

Resisting the urge to float the current of all things holly and jolly, I have found a more unique, if not better, analogy for describing some of our...

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