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Crop Insurance

The Importance of Production Records when Insuring your Apple Crop

Crop Growers Crop Insurance

With harvest upon us, apple bins are being filled and moved into storage. While this is a busy time of year for growers, it’s important to ensure you are proactively keeping track of production. We all have different ways to capture production information — whether it be a software with bin tags, hard copy logs from each trucker or sales records. The most important thing is the record keeping is done accurately.  

September 15, 2025

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Latest Tax Talk

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Tax Talks
Choice of Entity Structure for your Farm Business

When starting a new business, there are many challenges and considerations. While entity selection and structure may not be at the forefront for an entrepreneur, making an informed decision early can allow the focus to remain on the business operations and enable a smooth initial tax filing. Let’s examine some key structural considerations and tax implications. 

August 29, 2025

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Business Tips and Tools
Why Is Liquidity Important To Your Ag Operation?

In the financial world, your cash position is referred to as liquidity, i.e. your ability to pay your bills. Liquidity is important to any agricultural business, yet it may have a heightened significance depending on what you produce, how long it takes you to produce it and how it’s sold or marketed.

October 03, 2022

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Business Tips and Tools
Crop Insurance: When and How to File a Claim

Crop insurance is one of the most important tools you can have in your proverbial “toolbox.” There are many types of policies that can be tailored to your operation and what you’re growing. Crop insurance can provide coverage on a variety of naturally occurring peril. And when one of these perils occurs, you need to know how and when to file a claim.

September 26, 2022

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