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How to Increase Your Profitability This Harvest Season

4 Smart Business Moves for Farms in 2023

By Pinion Editorial | December 13, 2022
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With planting and input decisions already heavy on their minds, ag businesses are asking how they should manage their decisions around raised input costs and higher interest rates – and a potentially challenging year ahead.  Pinion ag advisor, Kala Jenkins, outlines four smart risk management and business moves that can …

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How the Holidays Can Shape Your Family Legacy

How the Holidays Can Shape Your Family Legacy

By Jeanne Bernick | November 22, 2022
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By Jeanne Bernick, Certified Family Business Advisor For many of you the stress of harvest season is over and now you enter a new season in family business: the holidays! As if working with family isn’t challenging enough, now there are mandatory meals and celebrations and traditions to recreate, not …

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Utility Easement

Considerations Before Accepting a Utility Easement Offer: How to Protect Your Land

By Pinion Editorial | November 16, 2022
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A land improvement utility easement can be a profitable income stream for farmers and ranchers. Across the U.S. we’re seeing an increase in opportunities for both surface and subsurface infrastructure and with additional tax credits and funding for energy efficient improvements from the Inflation Reduction Act, we will only see …

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Guidance for Setting Science-Based Targets for Your Ag Operation

By Pinion Editorial | November 15, 2022
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As the world strives towards a zero-carbon economy, more than 4,000 businesses worldwide have committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the Science-Based Target initiative. These targets are rooted in climate science and have guided companies in reducing over 53 million tons of CO2  emissions since 2015. This September, …

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Steps Every Landowner Should Take if Offered a Utility Easement

By Pinion Editorial | September 23, 2022
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Across the U.S. agricultural landscape, new cash crops are emerging: wind, solar and fiber. As the nation strives towards renewable energy and a green grid, we’re seeing an increase of opportunities for farmers and landowners to diversify their income with utility capital improvement projects. The Inflation Reduction Act, which includes …

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Risk Management

Economic Disruptors will Continue: What Producers Should Do and Plan For

By Eric Osterhaus | September 14, 2022
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Just as the American freight industry simmers, Russian referendums and statements are causing a frenzy in the wheat market. While the effects are uncertain, market experts are predicting an increase in market volatility as a result.  Global supply chain disruptions like these, coupled with pricing uncertainty, and of course the weather …

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Bringing Technology to the Farm

Bringing Technology to the Farm

By Pinion Editorial | September 7, 2022
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Like many growers and livestock producers, you’ve probably vowed to keep up with technology, at least to some extent. You’ve heard that technology can help you achieve new opportunities and greater success, using farm management software, crop traceability or carbon-capture data. But with so many programs and platforms available to …

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IRA Tax Credits

Summary of IRA Tax Credits for Ag and Clean Energy

By Pinion Editorial | August 12, 2022
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On August 7th, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022. The bill is now expected to be signed into law by President Biden. Pinion advisors have provided a high-level summary of the key IRA tax credits takeaways specific to agriculture and clean energy. …

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