The Farm Financial Standards Council invites all students, instructors, and industry professionals to prepare posters for presentation during the Council’s 2025 Annual Conference, which will be held July 23 – 25 in Lexington, KY. (Download full details here.) Posters will be displayed the afternoon of July 23 and the morning
Our annual meeting is set for July 23-25 in Lexington, Kentucky. The theme will be “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.” Watch this space for more information as it becomes available.
Members of the Farm Financial Standards Council elected its 2024/2025 leadership team and installed two new members of its board of directors at its annual conference held here July 24 – 26. All will serve through June 30, 2025. Elected to the role of president is Jonathan Shepherd, Agricultural Extension Specialist and director of the University of Kentucky Income Tax Seminar Program, Department of Ag Economics, University of Kentucky, Frankfort, KY. Previously Shepherd had served as president-elect and secretary/treasurer of the organization. Immediately preceding Shepherd and now immediate past-president is Deena Brown, lead underwriter with CGB AgriFinancial, Louisville, KY.
Our annual meeting was a success! Here are details about the new leadership elected. We’ll have more details later. Daily Schedule | Detailed Thursday Meeting Agenda | Lodging Daily Schedule Wednesday, July 24 Noon – 1:15 p.m. Finance Committee 1:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Membership/Marketing Committee 3:00 p.m. –
Congratulations to longtime council supporter Christine Hamilton. She and her team have been named 2024 Top Producer of the Year and are featured in the video above.
Even though the Guidelines documents produced by the Farm Financial Standards Council are extensively reviewed on a continual basis, issues and matters sometimes arise that are outside the “normal” financial accounting transactions typical for agricultural producers. We address one of those in our latest download.
The Farm Financial Standards Council invites all students, instructors, and industry professionals to prepare posters for presentation during the Council’s 2024 Annual Conference, which will be held July 24 – 26 in Louisville, KY.
The International Farm Management Association is bringing it’s biennial Congress to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, July 7 – 13 in 2024. What this means is this gathering will be within easy reach for many Council Members and a GREAT opportunity to meet with colleagues from around the world, literally. This group is
The Farm Financial Standards Council has recognized Phyllis Parks, a civic leader and longtime member of the council. In honoring Ms. Parks, Brown cited her years of leadership at the organization including a term as FFSC president in 2011. “It was under Phyllis’ guidance that the leadership had a weekend
Joe Kessie, now retired from Lake City Bank, Warsaw, IN, receives a plaque of special recognition and thanks from Kathy Reinhardt, CPA, president of the Farm Financial Standards Council. She cited Kessie’s years of being the official representative from the American Bankers Association and co-chair of the Council’s finance committee.
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