Ohnward Farm Management
Streamline Your Ag Operations
Partner with Ohnward’s Farm Management team to simplify and strengthen your ag business operations. Let our experts handle the paperwork while you focus on growing your profits.
Ohnward’s Farm Management team can assist in all aspects of ag operations. Our management representatives will sit down with you to discuss your specific objectives and outline a workable management plan to achieve those objectives.
Your management professional can work with you to:
- Prepare and service farm leases and agreements
- Collect rent or proceeds
- Arrange for capital improvements and repairs
- Supervise the purchase of production inputs
- Manage crop rotations, chemical and pest management
- Share knowledge and experience in commodity markets
- Provide access to market advisory services
- Make frequent farm visits
- Provide monthly and annual financial statements
Whatever level of farm management you desire, we can provide the expertise and assistance needed.
Farm Management Team
Greg Bopes
gbopes@ohnward.com
563-652-2491
Paige Somerville
psomerville@ohnward.com
563-652-2491 x4195
Farm Management | Additional Service Offerings
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Hourly Consulting
Our management representatives will sit down with you to discuss your specific objectives and outline a workable management plan to achieve those objectives.
These plans may include landlord tenant arrangements, cash rental agreements, custom farming operations and others. These farming plans can then be put into a crop and livestock plan showing cash requirements, cash budgets, and income projections. -
Marketing Plans
The time is past when a farmer can sell a commodity when it happens to be ready for market and be assured of receiving a profitable price. There may be only a limited period of time during the year when profitable prices exist. Thus, with highly volatile commodity prices, farm income is in large part dependent upon timely marketing. Due to limitations of time, lack of interest or lack of understanding, some farmers prefer to have professional help in their marketing. Our management services are available to assist in market planning or to assume complete responsibility for the marketing of your farm commodities.
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Real Estate Appraisals
Our farm managers are trained in the techniques of real estate appraisal. From analyzing purchase or sale options to the settlement of estates, they are trained to prepare formal written appraisals based on comparable sales, cost of replacement and income methods. Such appraisals may be strictly for private use, but may also be applicable for legal or Internal Revenue Service needs.
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Rental Appraisals
Like real estate appraisals, our farm managers deal regularly with land rental arrangements and are prepared to make appraisals on the current market for land rents. They are also able to offer professional advice on methods of establishing rents - be it cash, crop share or innovative arrangements to spread risk between landlord and tenant.
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Farm Record Keeping
Contracting for annual management services includes professional farm record keeping. Our farm managers and investment management team can provide whatever level of farm record keeping services you desire. This may include a variety of ongoing computerized financial reports to assist you in managing your operation.
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