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	Your business plan is the road map for your business. It clearly defines your business, identifies your goals, and describes in detail where you are today, where you plan to be in the future, and how you are going to get there. Your business plan, like your business, is a living thing. No business remains static, the plan will need to be revisited periodically and updated to reflect changes in your business. Our website will save your plan for five years from the last time you visited it, unless you personally delete it. You can come back and edit it as often as you need. View Sample

Industry News

Do not leave unplanted acres unplanted 8/19/2008
Lyle Asell with the Rebuild Iowa office says research shows leaving the fields fallow could lead to yield reductions of as much as 15% next year.

Grassley says 10-acre rule may need clarifying legislation 8/19/2008
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa says Congress may need to take further action on the 10-acre rule in the farm bill.

Dairy markets take a dive 8/19/2008
Dave Kurzawski with Downes & O'Neill says there is a lot of milk out there and right now a lot of it is being made into cheese.

U.S./Canada pig crop up 3% from last year 8/19/2008
The United States Department of Agriculture and Statistics Canada report that all hogs and pigs in the U.S. and Canada at the end of June 2008 totaled 80.646 million head, up 3% from the June 2007 report of 78.641 million head.

Indiana’s July milk production shows 4 percent decline 8/19/2008
The Indiana field office of the National Ag Statistics Service reports a 4 percent decline in July milk production.

Where fuel prices go, so to go corn prices 8/19/2008
When it comes to the corn price outlook, Purdue University ag economist Chris Hurt says you need to look no further than the price of fuel.

House Ag Committee Chairman keeping an eye on USDA 8/19/2008
From his perspective as Chairman of the House Ag Committee, implementation of the 2008 Farm Bill has gone pretty well, except for one policy that just happens to be a provision Collin Peterson himself initiated and that’s the 10-acre rule, which eliminated payments for producers with 10 or fewer acres.

Ohio River barge serves as classroom 8/19/2008
A barge on the Ohio River was a floating classroom of sorts Monday, August 18. Mike Shuter of Madison County, president of the Indiana Corn Marketing Council (ICMC) tells Brownfield the tour of the Newburgh lock and dam was an opportunity for Indiana and Illinois corn growers to bring attention to the importance of this countries river system.

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