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Boost Your Farm Productivity with Operating Lines of Credit

Boost Your Farm Productivity with Operating Lines of Credit

Make a list of essential ways to boost a farm’s productivity, and an operating line of credit will be on it. The benefits are both tangible and intangible, says Stacy Nobles, a relationship lending manager with AgSouth Farm Credit. He and Allen Daley, a relationship lender with AgSouth, have 38 years between them in helping farmers tailor operating lines of credit that best fit their businesses.
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If you’re a cattle producer, buying crop insurance may not be something of which you think you qualify. 3 Benefits of Livestock Risk Protection for your cattle operation are: Your premium can be due AFTER you go to market; There is no minimum number of heads insured; and, Having insurance looks more favorable to lenders.

Protect Your Cattle: 3 Benefits of Having Livestock Risk Protection

If you’re a cattle producer, buying crop insurance may not be something of which you think you qualify. 3 Benefits of Livestock Risk Protection for your cattle operation are: Your premium can be due AFTER you go to market; There is no minimum number of heads insured; and, Having insurance looks more favorable to lenders.
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How Certain Property Details Might Impact Your Land Loan AgSouth

How Certain Property Details Might Impact Your Land Loan

Land ownership becomes more and more attractive for some people. Finding the property and making it your own can sometimes pose challenges, however. We go over common property details and how it might affect your land loan when you’re searching for that perfect piece of land. We talk about land surveys, water tests, zoning requirements, and more.
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8 Pieces of Advice for Farmers from Local Crop Insurance Agents

8 Pieces of Advice for Farmers from Local Crop Insurance Agents

Whether you’re an experienced, young, beginning, or small farmer, crop insurance is an important part of any farming operation. While crop insurance policies and premiums are regulated at the national

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Do You Want to Write a Business Plan? Do These 4 Things First.

If you’re looking to obtain financing for your farming operation, no matter how big or small, you’ll need a business plan. Writing a business plan from scratch can be overwhelming. This article goes over what you will need to do before you start writing your business plan that will make the writing process go much more smoothly.
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4 Tips to Keep Country Dogs Safe Picture of Dog Laying on Ground

Own a Country Dog? Keep Them Safe With These 4 Veterinary Approved Tips

There is nothing better than watching your dog be a dog! But all that space to roam can come with an increased risk of injury. Here are 4 veterinary approved tips to keep your country canine safe
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Farm Loans: 9 Pieces of Advice for Farmers from Experienced Agriculture Lenders

Farm Loans: 9 Pieces of Advice for Farmers from Experienced Agriculture Lenders

Whether you’re an experienced, young, beginning, or small farmer, chances are you’re going to need some level of financing during your career. We've compiled the best advice from our most experience agricultural lenders.
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4 Ways Your Local Extension Agent Can Help You

Most people have heard of Extension, but may not know what services are offered and who can benefit from them. Extension Agents have been serving rural communities for over a hundred years, and their work is just as important now as it was then. Learn how you can use your local extension agent.
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Poultry Farmer Z Kam In Front of His Chicken Houses

How Hard Work Made This Refugee a Poultry Farmer

"It was time to seek freedom and liberty." Read the story of how a Burmese pastor became a poultry farmer.
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Cultivation & Conservation Keeping Soils Healthy

Cultivation & Conservation: Keeping Soils Healthy

Southeast Georgia farmers David Cromley, JD Newton, and Ryne Brannen each farm cotton and peanuts with their families. All in their 30’s, these young farmers are driven to grow the highest quality crops they can, in an environmentally conscious way, that is also sustainable for their farm business to pass down to another generation of farmers. Hear their conversation about how important it is they keep their soil healthy for their farms.
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