NOVEMBER ON THE FARM

Can’t believe November has come and gone already, one more month and its goodbye 2025, hello 2026; I’m not sure I’m ready for that yet.  For about the last month I’ve been working on and off on our 2026 budgets and proposed financials and still are nowhere near finished.  There’s a lot more to consider today than there was just a few short years ago.  Back in the day we only had our farm production capabilities and our projected sales to consider, today there’s the market, smokehouse, farm, home delivery, meat share, and restaurants to consider when figuring revenue, and a whole host of things to consider when estimating costs and business expenses. We haven’t always done the best job when writing a capital budget; in 2025 we invested in and built a smokehouse which wasn’t included in our 2025 capital budget like it should have been. I don’t get my panties in a wad over it though since we do a better job at budgeting today than we did a few years ago.