Does your farm develop a monthly or quarterly cash flow statement? Do the leaders in your operation know how to analyze farm growth opportunities? Are you wondering about the best use of working capital as it relates to your farm’s debt, capital asset needs, and income taxes?
Those are some of the topics we’ll be touching on
live at the 2021 Ag Finance Boot Camp, to be held June 15 at the Coralville Marriott Hotel and Conference Center just outside Iowa City.
This is a national educational workshop and everyone is welcome. The Ag Finance Boot Camp teaches more than just money management. It educates farm families on how to become better business managers. This high energy workshop offers top-level training and plenty of opportunities to engage with presenters.
Soybeans grab double-digit gains while wheat comes in lightly mixed
Corn prices faded for a second consecutive session Friday after another round of technical selling today. But nearby contracts still finished the week strong, moving more than 1.5% higher after capturing big gains earlier in the week. Soybean prices carved out moderate gains of around 1%, meantime, as traders shifted their focus back to historically tight supplies. Wheat prices were narrowly mixed, meantime, with CBOT futures dropping slightly while Kanas City HRW and MGEX spring wheat futures found small gains today.
NOAA’s latest 72-hour cumulative precipitation map indicates that very few areas in the Midwest or Plains will see more than 0.1” of additional rains between Saturday and Tuesday. The agency’s 8-to-14-day outlook predicts some seasonally cool weather between April 23 and April 29 centered around the Great Lakes region, with wetter-than-normal conditions likely east of the Mississippi River.
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Is it time to meet old friends, learn a few new things, and sharpen up your farm management skillset? You bet it is, and we’re here to help. After long months of isolation the 2021 Farm Futures Business Summit is set to go live June 16-17 at the Coralville Marriott Hotel and Conference Center just outside Iowa City. This year’s agenda is packed with risk management, best practices, market outlook sessions, and much, much more. What’s in store?
China and future ag trade
Pull up a chair and listen in as Gregg Doud, former U.S. trade Ambassador and one of the primary architects of the U.S.-China Phase One trade deal, shares his view of China and future ag exports. Doud has seen ag trade evolve over 30 years working in agriculture on Capitol Hill. He will offer an inside look at what it was like to negotiate the deal and work in the Trump administration.
Annual Souper Bowl fundraiser still is on for Domestic Violence Intervention Program Souporters can pick up meals or arrange delivery for this year s event; tickets available through Feb. 15
A volunteer serves up one of the 36 soups offered during the 2016 Domestic Violence Intervention Program’s Souper Bowl fundraiser in Iowa City. For this year’s heat-and-eat at home event, tickets at some price points include a souvenir soup mug. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Nicole Mooc of Iowa City, laughs as she serves a potato and spinach soup named “Pot & Spin” to fellow University of Iowa student Kira Wennerholm during the 2016 Domestic Violence Intervention Program’s Souper Bowl fundraiser, held at the Sheraton Iowa City Hotel in Iowa City. In light of the pandemic, this year’s event offers ticket holders a choice of 10 soups to heat and eat at home, through pickup or local delivery Feb. 25. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)