AgNavigator is two entities working
together to help farmers survive in a time of great change in production
agriculture.
AgNavigator Real Estate
AgNavigator Real Estate is a full
service real estate brokerage specializing in Ag Real Estate. AgNavigator Real
Estate provides services such as farm and ranch management, sales and auctions.
Our full service team of licensed professional agents can help you with all of
your agricultural real estate needs.
AgNavigator, LLC
AgNavigator, LLC is an agricultural
aggregator and licensed crop insurance agency. As an aggregator our mission is
to help people work together for the benefit of all. As a crop insurance agency
our mission is to use all the tools we can find to cost effectively reduce
production risk for everyone involved. Some of the key services that allow
AgNavigator LLC to provide this beneficial service are by allowing producers to
be as efficient as possible by purchasing inputs as a team and selling their
products as a team. In some cases AgNavigator can help operators gain access to
the latest technology and most efficient farm equipment and marketing tools at a
cost that most individual farms can not achieve.
MAKING YOUR OPERATION
AS EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE
If you are a landowner looking for
the best return on your Ag investment or a farm operator looking to operate as
efficiently as possible AgNavigator has developed innovative opportunities for
you to consider. Think about the history of agriculture and the changes that
have changed our lives; irrigation, round bales, center pivots, global
positioning satellites to name just a few. If we looked at a typical operation
one hundred years ago you would see very few of the things I just mentioned but
you would see people working together for the betterment of their own operations
and their communities. I remember my parents talking about the days when the
thresher would come or when all the neighbors helped each other when it was time
to shell corn. When I was a kid the local cooperatives were owned by the local
farmers who made all the decisions and banded together to get good prices on
inputs and to create markets for their crops. But just as center pivots have
made lath boxes and siphon tubes obsolete most local cooperatives are far from
owned or controlled by your neighbors. When the average farmer today is
shopping for inputs they are standing alone against the corporate giants who
control the industry. It doesn’t really matter if you farm one quarter or 20
your business still does not have much of an impact on their bottom line.
Another challenge for the average
farmer is the cost of today’s technology. With grid sampling and gps steered
equipment production agriculture has moved to an entire new plateau of
efficiency that most of us can not afford to justify on our individual
operations. But is that really any different from the challenges our parents
and grandparents faced? When they worked together to share the cost of a corn
sheller or a thrashing machine they embraced the most efficient technology of
the time by working together not fading away individually.
One of the main reasons we created
AgNavigator was to bring people together by using an innovative approach to
agriculture and farm and ranch management. The following opportunities are
available to you right now and have been tested over the past two years with
farms in your area:
Production Agreements: By
signing a production agreement to include your grain production with the other
successful producers in the AgNavigator system you share in the benefits and
efficiency of marketing your grain as a group. Which do you think the grain
buyer is going to pay more attention to and give his best opportunity to; an
individual farmer who wants to market 50 or 100 thousand bushels or AgNavigator
who has millions of bushels from the group working together? AgNavigator also
has an experienced grain marketing team that knows the industry and makes the
selling decisions for the group. Now while we admit they are not perfect and
they won’t top the market every time, who do you think has a better chance of
getting more income for your grain? Someone who has made their living from
marketing grain every day with over 50 years of collective experience or you
doing it in between everything else you have going on. All other things being
equal the sheer volume that our group brings to the market usually provides a
better basis than a typical farmer going it alone.
Input Purchases: If you walk into the
store and buy one carton of milk how willing will the store be to negotiate the
price with you? Now walk in and ask the store if you can get a better price on
a thousand cartons of milk. By buying together just like selling together your
operation can increase your bottom line. If your operation has a signed
management agreement or production agreement with AgNavigator your operation
will have the opportunity to participate in the wholesale contracts we have
arranged for all of the inputs you need for your operation.
Risk Management: AgNavigator is able
to provide all types crop insurance products like most agents but AgNavigator
also has the ability to provide a private add on yield contract that can
increase your yield guarantee to as much as 90% of your actual production
history if you qualify. This allows a marketing plan to be developed that can
cover your cost before the first seed is planted.
Real Estate Sales: If you are looking
to sell your farm or ranch, AgNavigator Real Estate will work with you to
develop a marketing plan and implement that plan to bring you the most return
for your property with very competitive commission rates. John Hanson is also
an experienced real estate auctioneer, so if you are considering a real estate
auction give us a call and we will meet or beat any competitors’ commission rate
and turn your property into cash.
Farm Management: AgNavigator Real
Estate can manage your property using all of the traditional types of farm and
ranch leases such as share, cash or custom farming. AgNavigator Real Estate has
also developed a new approach to leasing that has become very popular, profit
sharing agreements. In a profit sharing agreement the first step is to
determine the capacity of the operation to generate risk free returns. We do
this by looking at the actual production history, the futures market and several
other factors. Once guaranteed revenue is determined AgNavigator Real Estate
helps the landowner and the operator determine fair minimum returns for return
on land ownership and return on labor and equipment. No matter what happens the
landowner receives this minimum return for owning the land and the farm operator
receives a minimum return for their equipment use and labor. The next step is
to accurately track every input cost for the growing crop. This is done using
AgNavigator’s sophisticated farm management software that takes information
right from the equipments global positioning system and uploads it into the
accounting program so that every expense reflects exactly what happened in the
field; seed, spray application, fertilizer application and every bushel at
harvest. After harvest a detailed summary shows input, expense and the profit
from the farm that is shared between the operator and landlord on a
predetermined split. One reason this arrangement has become so popular is that
it ends the unpleasant rent discussions during volatile market swings. If
prices swing up everyone benefits, if the crop is lost or market prices tumble
to the floor it is still in place and everyone is treated fairly. The
professionals at AgNavigator Real Estate will be glad to develop a sample of
this program for your farm so you can see if it works for you. In recent years
we have seen landowners more than double the income from their farm investment.
We have also seen farm operators who have gained additional acres and reduced
their operations risk by bringing this program to landowners.
Ranch Management: AgNavigator Real
Estate has developed programs with key individuals with extensive experience in
range management to manage cattle operations in the same innovative manner that
we manage farms. By using key risk management tools together with latest
technologies for water and forage management we can provide you the highest
return for your ranch.
Summary
AgNavigator offers innovative
solutions to meet the challenges of today’s agriculture. Compare our rates, our
products and our professional team and you will see why AgNavigator Real Estate
is quickly becoming the leader in Farm and Ranch Management and sales.
AgNavigator offers a variety of products to meet the needs of land owners, farm
and ranch operators and anyone with an interest in agriculture. We know we are
on the right track by working together and creating opportunities for young
farmers and ranchers to get started and rural communities to survive and
prosper. If you would like to learn how your operation may benefit by teaming up
with AgNavigator please contact one of our professional team members.