Smart Buyer 

Price break for early orders Our latest Smart Buyer is from Langdon, MO. We sent a check for $100 to Richard Oswald for his recent buying tip: Sometimes...

Business of buying 

No to pork checkoff, yes to beef checkoff Three announcements, all within a week of each other, left the nation's livestock producers shaking their heads....

Industry Giants 

By: Dale McDonald

Just three years ago before the formation of Aventis there were 10 major global chemical companies. According to Sano Shimoda, president of BioScience...

Fast loan service at supply stores 

By: Karen McMahon

Soon, you may choose more than crop chemicals, fertilizer and seed at your local crop supply store. You may also choose a financing package that will...

High hopes, high risks 

By: Joan Olson

For as many value-added agricultural ventures that succeed, there are at least that many that fail. That's important to keep in mind as you consider participating...

Better buying 

By: Wayne Wenzel and Roxanne Furlong

Team FIN members share buying tactics. For the fifth year in a row, we asked Team FIN members to share their favorite buying strategies of the past season....

Common ground 

By: Joan Olson

Farmers add acres by sharing equipment and labor.Many farmers in the Midwest today feel they need to farm more than 1,000 acres to remain in business....

The co-op shuffle 

By: FARM INDUSTRY NEWS STAFF

How ag co-op realignments and huge growth will affect your buying.Farmland's feed alliance with Land O' Lakes is a classic example of cooperative giganticizing....

FIN staff changes 

By: FARM INDUSTRY NEWS STAFF

Farm Industry News has a new editor. Karen McMahon has been promoted to the post after serving for two years as FIN's senior editor. McMahon has spent...

We're honored 

By: FARM INDUSTRY NEWS STAFF

Farm Industry News recently won several top awards in contests of magazine excellence. In a contest sponsored by the Minnesota Magazine & Publications...