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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Common Contract Mistakes Made by Ag Tech Companies
I review and draft a lot of contracts. Many of these agreements are in the ag technology space, which presents unique drafting challenges. First and foremost, the subject matter of these agreements — personal information, data collection, license grants — is often foreign to farmers and agribusinesses. But there are other problems as well, which this post will address.
JUNE 28, 2018
Resilience through change
Agriculture and food are dynamic and ever-changing industries. That means businesses and the people who run them have to possess a level of resilience in order to be successful long-term. Employees must to be able to adapt and grow in spite of the challenges that change often brings.
JUNE 26, 2018
Top 5 reasons to attend the National Conference for Food and Agribusiness
There are a variety of rapid-fire changes happening in the food and agriculture industry, including generational shifts and consolidations in farm business and agribusiness. With these changes and the rise in e-commerce and digital purchases, do relationships still matter in today’s agribusiness marketplace?
APRIL 25, 2018
Sales and marketing’s role in liquidity
For better or worse, marketing and sales efforts affect not only the profitability of a firm but also the firm’s liquidity, or its ability to meet short-term financial obligations.
APRIL 17, 2018
Decision discipline
You make business decisions every single day. Every once in a while, a decision comes along with the potential to be a game changer for your organization.
JANUARY 17, 2018
Disruption and chaos
The agri-food system is changing and your organization is no doubt working through the ways to cultivate competitive advantage in an industry that’s moving at warp speed. But disruption and chaos in the marketplace isn’t necessarily always a bad thing.
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Efficiency not the only factor in successful supply chain/operations
A large part of the retail business is about supply chain management and operations, or SCO. Traditionally, SCO management has often been associated with efficiency, but that’s not necessarily an all-encompassing way to think about SCO strategy.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
Producer perceptions of agricultural risk in 2017
Yield and price risk take center stage in most discussions surrounding risk in agriculture. While these are obviously important aspects of risk to any farm business, the risks faced by agricultural producers are much broader than prices received for products sold and the risks associated with physical production of outputs.
