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I heard about a whiteboard app that has fading gestures that were highly reviewed. Does anyone know which app has these?

Process was very smooth with our local bank in North Dakota. Was funded yesterday.

After the 2019 corn crop is harvested, the USDA is projecting 51.5 days of excess stocks in the United States

Other than alfalfa, the vast majority of the farms that I know of that supply large dairies take advantage of crop rotations. These are from crop farms that supply large dairies in Minnesota and South Dakota.

Thanks Russ! Hopefully we will get the opportunity to collaborate!

I'm the founder of a company called Harvest Profit. We build a suite of profitability and risk management tools, trying to help farmers better manage their operations.

Farming is a unique business where the average farm generates $1+ million of revenue and is self-managed.

I agree with this article. More farmers are taking on the duties of merchandising their commodities and we help them with that. It's a fun challenge.

As an aside, selling intangible goods like software to farmers (who love equipment) is not for the faint of heart!

A similar story is detailed in a booked called The Power of Moments. In particular, they focus on the shaming that they do to change behavior

I was doing consulting work in the space, saw a need, and built the product. I came into it knowing the traits of farmer, the lingo, etc. That and a good product have helped us gain trust

I ran a one man side gig for a couple years (farm management software). Got it to $200k and growing after 6 months in the market but I needed to bring the development in-house.

Could've used outsourced talent for all dev and customer support but interestingly enough the reason why I hired was "what happens to all of our customers if I die?". I felt like I owed it to them to put a team in place, albeit a small one.

I haven't published anything or sought to. I should look into that. I've been laser focused on the blog and email list. I need to broaden my reach though.

I targeted a broad set of farming interests. My research told me that Facebook will optimize your interests based on which are performing better.

I would simply see which blog posts are getting the best organic reach and boost those. Grew my email list to 2,500 in six months.