Production | Economics | Financial, Business Management | Legal | Stress, Family, and Others

University of Illinois Managing Pig Production in Tough Times Presentations

UMN Swine Extension website

UMN Pork Information Gateway

• Practical Ideas to Address High Feed and Production Costs (pdf)

PorkCast online seminars

• Rising to the Challenge of Rising Corn Prices: Proactive Options for the Pork Industry
• Prioritizing Your Energy Investment

UMN Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles website

• Feeding guidelines for swine (pdf)
• Use of corn DDGS in pig diets (pdf)
• Articles on DDGS use in swine diets
• Cost calculators

Evaluating Hog Market Weights (pdf)

• Simple hog market weight calculator (Excel)
• Advanced hog market weight calculator (Excel)

Steve Meyer National Hog Farmer weekly columns

Grimes/Plain Univ of Missouri Farm Marketing Reports

• Weekly Outlook On Hogs
• Weekly Hog, Sow, and Gilt Slaughter Comparisons
• Quarterly Hogs & Pigs Report Summary

Illinois/Purdue Weekly Outlook Newsletters

Lawrence ISU March Hogs and Pigs Report analysis pdf)

USDA AMS Hog Market Reports

UMN Pork Information Gateway

• Financing Hog Operations (pdf)
• Cash Flow Budgeting A Weather Forecast for Your Business(pdf)
• Fiscal Fitness: Liquidity (pdf)
• Solvency and Repayment Capacity Issues Facing the Swine Farmer (pdf)
• Strategic Decisions and Business Plans (pdf)
• Credit Score: What it Means to your Business (pdf)
• Establishing Fair Market Value of Swine Facilities (pdf)

UMN Extension Ag Business Management

• Farm Management fact sheets
• What Does it Take to Earn a Living on the Farm? (pdf)
• Why Can't Agriculture Be Like it Was in the 1970's Comparing a 1970's Farm with Current Farm Returns/Cost of Living (pdf)
• Farm Transfer factsheets

UMN Center for Farm Financial Management

• FinBin Farm Financial Database
• Business Planning Training Materials

Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture

• Guide to Developing a Business Plan for Farms and Rural Businesses
• Whole Farm Planning: Combining Family, Profit, and Environment

Minnesota Farm Business Management Education Programs

USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Farm Loan Programs

UMN Extension Factsheets

• Agricultural Production Contracts (FO-7302).
• Bankruptcy: The Last Resort (FO-2598).
• Bankruptcy: Chapter 7 Liquidations (FO-7295).
• Bankruptcy: Chapter 11 Reorganizations (FS-7296).
• Bankruptcy: Chapter 12 Reorganizations (FO-7301).
• Contracts, Notes and Guaranties (FS-2590).
• Farm Leases (FS-2593).
• Financing the Farm Operation (FS-2589).
• Mortgage Foreclosures (FO-7297).
• Mortgages and Contracts for Deed (FO-7293).
• Rights of Unsecured Creditors (FO-7299).
• Security Interests in Personal Property (FO-7292).
• Tax Considerations in Liquidations and Reorganizations (FO-7300).
• Termination of Contracts for Deed (FS-7294).
• Termination of Security Interests in Personal Property (FO-7298).

UMN Extension Farmer-Lender Mediation website

MDA Minnesota Farm Advocates

Minnesota Family Farm Law Project (MFFLP)

USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Agricultural Mediation Program

Farmers’ Legal Action Group, Inc.

Rural MN Life website

• Taking Care of the Family during Adverse Times on the Farm
• Adjusting to Suddenly Reduced Income
• Change: Loss, Opportunity, and Resilience
• Staying Resilient in Times of Change presentation
• Losing a Way of Life? Ambiguous Loss in Farm Families

Getting Through Tough Times fact sheet series

• Community agencies that can help
• Identifying sources of friendship and support
• Controlling stress
• Helping children cope

Mental Health

Ted Mathews, Mental Health Professional, Farm Business Management Program, (320)585-5671, tdmatt@info-link.net.

Bridge to Benefits website

LSS Financial Counseling Service website