Month: August 2023

Manage Your Top 3 Farm Risks

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Farming is a risky business. With changing policies, weather events, global dynamics, and other factors beyond a farmer’s control, it feels less and less predictable each year. While market volatility has been part of agriculture for decades, today’s commodity prices react even more quickly to the influences of a world …

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How Automating Your Farm Office Creates Competitive Advantages

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As a farm manager, you’ve invested in high-tech field equipment like GPS tractor systems, efficient irrigation systems and automated milking parlors to make your life easier. But what about your farm office? In the ag industry, the back office is largely overlooked. But the farm office has huge opportunities and …

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Kansas Senate Bill 15 Overview

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The Kansas Senate Bill 15 creates a new deduction for tax returns beginning in 2023. Specifically, the bill allows financial institutions to take privilege tax deductions on loans they’ve issued for agricultural real estate and single-family residences – providing a permanent tax savings for lending to ag clients and rural …

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Key Aspects of Section 1071: The Small Business Lending Final Rule

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I’m sure you are well aware of the beast the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued on March 30, 2023 related to Section 1071, the finalized Small Business Lending rule.  Almost every day there is a call to action from the banking industry to challenge the CFPB to provide relief …

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