Braintrust Ag

🗞️37 | Without SOPs you're reduced to chaos

Explore why SOPs can boost efficiency and how to put them together without it being a pain in the neck. Plus seeds, a note on inheritance and step-up in basis, a thread on round barns, and a look at the SAF Tax credit.

🗞️36 | Transformational meetings

Get on the same page with farm business meetings; the settlers & pioneers were tough; upcoming event! a playbook for farm expansion

🗞 35 | Inventory isn't just for warehouses

Take an inventory of your farm business; beware energy & carbon contracts; prevent plant overview; and more

🗞️ 32 | Some brief updates

🗞 31 | A tool to help with family farm disputes...(maybe?)

Conflict resolution and compromise is a key component to this tool to help with difficult family farm disputes; an update on Braintrust Ag as a whole; upcoming events; developments in FinCEN BOI reporting; and a great total compensation tool to use for employees.

🗞 30 | 147 pieces of advice...

Ag people from all parts weighed in on what they wish they knew when they were 20. Learn from their wisdom.

🗞 29 | Guess which entity makes up 10% of farms?

Using LLCs in farming, a bunch of great nuggets to share, peer group happenings, 2024 farm sector income forecast, and putting together a local investor group.

🗞️ 28 | Farmers are getting older, Ag Census shows

We pull out some highlights from the recent Ag Census, explore the lifecyle of a family farmer, spotlight how a farm employee is becoming an owner, and more.

🗞 27 | A look under the hood

Let's define this community and give a closer look behind the scenes.

🗞️ 26 - Five pathways to break into ag (and 2 flex lease examples)

A look at five ways a "beginning farmer" can work towards their own operation; 2024 ag outlook through the eyes of an ag lender; two examples of flexible cash leases.

🗞 25 - Viral post got some interesting reactions

A look at comments on an out-of-the-box strategy, a billionaire "farmer", 18 transition questions, personality tests, and more...

🗞 #24 - Don't get a $10K fine & 2 years in prison

New requirements for entities to file their ownership records, top stories from the past year, small farm ideas, machinery transfer strategy, and turning cost centers into profit centers.