Conferences

2020 Annual Conference Canceled

The leadership of the Farm Financial Standards Council has postponed the meeting scheduled for Amarillo in late July and is rescheduling the event until July 28-30, 2021. The meeting will be held at that time in Amarillo. “The Council has been meeting annually since 1993, and this is the first

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Neiffer and Covington Address Boot Camp Program

Paul Neiffer, left, and Curt Covington address the 200 in attendance at the Farm Futures Boot Camp being held January 23 in Coralville, IA. The two opened the all-day program with a session focusing on the evolution of the Financial Guidelines and how producers can best use them for preparing

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Resources

Order Now – Updated 2020 Guidelines Available!

A new year means new revisions to the FFSC Financial Guidelines for Agriculture. Stay up to date by ordering the 2020 edition of our guidelines document. The Financial Guidelines for Agricultural Production provides recommended standards for format and content of financial reports, recommended financial measures common to all sectors of agriculture, and

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Conferences

Ag Finance Boot Camp 2020

Our Farm Futures Ag Finance Boot Camp will help you Master the Business of Agriculture. Join us January 22 at the Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Coralville, Iowa, for our one-day workshop packed with sessions presented by savvy ag finance experts and lenders. Big Picture Topics: How accrual transactions

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Board Notes

Is it REALLY Going to be 2020? It seems almost impossible that the next calendar year will be 2020! Why, it was just a few short months ago when everyone was concerned about Y2K and what it was going to mean ot the world…computers were going to stop computing…airplanes were

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Conferences

Annual Conference Photo Summary

As the rains and high humidity gave way on Tuesday, drier and much more comfortable air settled in over the Raleigh/Durham area July 24th and stayed the rest of the week making the climate for the 2019 FFSC Annual Conference downright comfortable. Want to know what you missed? Just take

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FFSC Leadership Team
Council Activities

Raynor Heads Farm Financial Standards Council

Keith Raynor, CPA, a partner with TRP CPAs, Dunn, NC, seated, is elected new president of the Farm Financial Standards Council. He is surrounded by the new leadership team at the Council. Standing, from left, are: Brenda Duckworth, CPA, FFSC Vice President; Todd Doehring, Immediate Past President; and Bill Rutter,

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Council Activities

Committee / Director Realignments for Council

With the change in leadership at the Farm Financial Standards Council there have also been realignments in some committee chair activities. Shane Eloe, Dickinson & Clark CPAs, moves into the co-chair position for the Marketing Committee, a position he will share with David Olsen, Compeer Financial. Eloe replaces Brenda Duckworth,

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Conferences

FFSC Conference: Nothing Could Be Finer

Join us July 24-26 in Raleigh, North Carolina, for our annual conference! Nothing Could Be Finer than to be in Carolina in the Morning The words of Gus Kahn in a song first published in 1922 as “Carolina in the Morning” will serve as our mantra for the 2019 Farm

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Measuring Repayment Capacity and Farm Growth Potential

by Michael Langemeier, Associate Director, Center for Commercial Agriculture (Excerpt reprinted by permission of the author and Ag Banking Magazine. Find the full article here.) Introduction Repayment capacity measures include capital debt repayment capacity, capital debt repayment margin, replacement margin, term debt and capital lease coverage ratio, and replacement coverage

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