Yield

Still Thinking That Yields Are Out Of Your Control?

Still thinking that yields are out of your control?  In the dark about what kind of crop insurance you need for your farm?  Still guessing when it comes to marketing your grain?  If so, than you need help with your finances too.

We’re the only company in the United States who offers farmers the ability to pull all four increments of profitability together to achieve business goals.

Give us a call or contact us today at Corn Capital Innovations. We would love the opportunity to help your business succeed.

Clear Your Mindset from 2012 – 2013 Will Be Different

The 2013 Farming Season is already here, do you believe your combine is your first tillage pass for fall tillage in the preparation for spring?  We do!

Everything you do, right now, this fall, will impact your season for next year.  We feel the road map to success is being prepared.  Even before you combine, having a crop plan in place is the most important part of your future.

Your plan:  Consider what expectation you had going into this 2012 season.  Now that it is at the years end what you accept or don’t accept with in those expectations is how you will feel going into 2013.  Will you go into the New Year feeling positive about the 2013 crop?  Here a few possible expectations for next year’s crop.

  • Another year of drought, wind, & hail

OR

  • Weather you can work with and the potential to grow your best yields ever.

Make sure that your plan includes Risk Management, Grain Market Protection, and Crop Production.  Make sure you are in the game, ready with no surprises.  Don’t be left out of the game with many surprises, they can be expensive!

You have to expect the unexpected; after all you can’t predict Mother Nature.  So go into 2013 with a clear mind, be flexible and remember it is better to re-educate yourself on the things that are available to you (crop production, crop insurance, grain marketing, financial analysis)  versus to re-assume the decisions that you made.  Stay ahead of the curve and surround yourself with people that are positive and working with your to hit your yield goals.  You have to have a crop production plan that is based on growing the best crop possible.  Your risk management plan is for protecting against the worst case scenarios that Mother Nature will throw your way.

Contact Us or call 320-523-2252 to find out all that we can assist you with for the remainder of this year and of course 2013 as it is already upon us!

Farming is like Fishing; You Need a Good Attitude!


Want to catch a lot of fish?  Check your attitude!

The fishing season is here and lots of people are out there trying their luck.  When you tell people attitude is the number one factor to catching fish… they think your joking.  Most people believe they go fishing to fix a bad attitude and it isn’t necessary to arrive at the lake with a good one.

But the angler’s attitude effects every decision he makes while fishing, which directly affects their success.

Fishing is just like farming.  Attitude is the number one factor that affects the decisions you make thru-out the growing season.  When you realize you can’t control Mother Nature, the market or what other people say or do, but you can control your attitude you’ve taken the first step to succeeding in farming.

Having a good attitude helps you relax, stay focused and enjoy farming a lot more.  Never put your boat in the water or enter the field unless you have a good attitude.

I hope your attitude helps you catch a lot more fish and achieve higher yields and greater possibilities this year.

Tell us your strategy for a good attitude in the comments below!

Crop Insurance for the Perils that Affect Top Yield

Corn Capital Innovations offers a full service of Crop Insurance products that cover many of the perils that affect top yield potential while providing you and your family peace-of-mind.

The weather is any one’s guess and having the correct insurance will certainly help to manage the risk that farmers take each and every year.

Crop Hail Insurance offers several options:

  • All or a portion of your crop acres can be insured. You decide how much risk that you want to handle and then we write the policy to manage that risk.
  • Crops can be insured at any time up to a specific harvest date.
  • Protection for loss due to fire or loss in transportation is available.
  • Additional coverage is available to protect your revenue, profit or to cover costs when you are faced with the need to replant when these benefits are not protected by multi-peril crop insurance.

Actual Production History (APH) coverage is available based on your yield history.  We will work with you to set a comfortable level that best fits your family’s goal.

With Yield Protection (YP) we can insure that you receive replacement income when your crop yield does not achieve a previously specific level, due to many different perils.  These policies are available on varying levels.

Both APH and YP plans are yield-based policies.  These policies are offered to protect you due to natural causes such as wind, hail, frost, drought and flooding.  These policies can be written to include the damage from infestation from either disease or insect.

Each policy listed above must be scripted to list each specific crop.  Coverage’s are paid only when or if production falls below the prearranged production that we will establish in the Spring.

Revenue Protection (RP) and Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion (RP/HPE) policies offer revenue protection based on both your actual yield and grain market price potential.  Either plan will combine your production history with current grain market price to establish the revenue protection.  RP plan does allow for fluctuation in market prices and will be based on the actual price in effect in the Fall.  The RP/HPE excludes the Fall market price aspect and limits the revenue guarantee to what was established in the Spring.  Both plans protect against lost revenue affected by low market prices, low yields, or a combination of both.

Corn Capital Innovations is here to help you make the best choices possible.  We understand what you are going through, because we have been there too.

Let us help you determine the next steps in protecting your crop.  Contact us today!

Production: Farming, Crop and Bushels Per Acre

What is Production The dictionary says:

1. The act or process of producing.

2. Something produced; product. 3. The total number of products; output,

1 = Farming   2= Crop   3= Bushels per Acre

Farmers are probably the most unique businessmen there are.  They need to understand more than the average corporate business person.  They need to comprehend the science of seed and soil.  They need to be accountants, purchasers, mechanics and welders.  They have to be a weather forecaster, and depending on their farm operation, may also have to be nutritionists and a veterinarian.  With all that said, they still need to “farm”.  A farmer needs to protect and nurture their crop from planting to harvest.

I remember hearing “the farmer only works two months out of the year: May & October” which is absolutely not the case!  It is all that can be done in between those seasons that will help to maximize bushels per acre and revenue per acre.  Starting with the right seed for your soil conditions is only the beginning. As you know, you can’t control Mother Nature.  How you handle what she gives us is the one thing you can control!

The weather will determine how you will nurture your crop.  A great example is feeding a diabetic; they do best when fed small meals all day long.  The same idea applies with farming; nurture your crop by applying multiple applications of fertilizer and routinely apply fungicides in combination with other pesticides.  Farmers who follow this philosophy will reap the benefit of higher yields as the plants will be healthier all season long.

What factors are keeping you from consistently producing maximum bushels?

Check the ones you already have in place:

__A 3 year goal and plan to reach higher yields

__Control over my production and yield strategy

__The right people in place to help me reach my goals

__Completed cropping plans prior to harvest each year

__Confidence in which seed and technologies to purchase

__Expertise in the latest agronomic practices to achieve my goals

__ Proficiency in advanced tillage practices

98% of Corn Capital Innovations growers raise yields to new levels and significantly lower their per unit production costs!  The 2% that don’t do this, do not follow our program.

Other factors to consider include protecting your investment with Crop Insurance, increasing profitability with Grain Marketing and generating revenue using Financial Management.

Contact us to help you increase your production as you nurture your field this growing season!

 

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