by Mia Godfrey | Nov 9, 2018 | Farm Management
Regardless of how you grow, the profitability of your farm will depend on three main factors: demand, viability, and profit margin. Lots of new farmers focus the majority of their efforts on their ability to grow a single crop and forget to do research on the other...
by The Upstart University Team | Oct 1, 2018 | Farm Management, Farming as a Business
Editor’s Note: This article was originally posted on Agri-Pulse by Matt Barnard, Paul Lightfoot, and Irving Fain. American farmers and agricultural companies have always been global leaders. This has never been as important as it is today. As billions of people...
by Mia Godfrey | Sep 20, 2018 | Farm Management
While indoor growers enjoy the benefit of year-round harvests, they can still lose precious time when their system is empty between crop cycles. This is called downtime, and to indoor farmers, it represents an important profit factor. This post will help you manage...
by The Upstart University Team | Sep 11, 2018 | Farm Management, News & Updates
The Farm Bill is moving in Congress and could impact your farm. As you may have learned in our previous post, Congress typically rewrites the Farm Bill every five years and is currently in the process of writing a new Farm Bill with the goal of passing it by the end...
by Amy Storey | Sep 7, 2018 | Farm Management
In a recent survey conducted by Upstart University, 70% of respondents stated that they were unsure of whether the Farm Bill would impact their [future] business. Yet ironically all respondents plan on investing in some kind of energy-efficient equipment in the next...
by Mia Godfrey | Jul 18, 2018 | Farm Management
In the last blog of the Crop Planning series, we talked about calculating seeding rates. Knowing how many seeds to plant is only helpful if you can properly get them through the germination and propagation stages. That requires carefully planning the environmental...
