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
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,
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,
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
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
Reprinted by permission of the Purdue University Center for Commercial Agriculture In April, the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer recorded the fourth largest one-month drop since data collection began in October 2015. The barometer, which is a sentiment index based on a monthly survey of 400 agricultural producers across
The FFSC is proud to be a sponsor of the National Farm Business Management Conference! We’d love to have you join us in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, from June 9-13. You can find an agenda here, and you can register online here. Information about lodging at the beautiful Blue Harbor Resort and
This ‘n’ That from the Council Your Council has been busy. Council members hit the new year running with presentation to groups in Wisconsin and Iowa all in the past few weeks. On January 9 Brad Guse, Senor VP with BMO Harris in Arpin, WI was joined by BMO Managing
More than 100 producers from across the United States (and one from Canada) joined us for our Farm Futures Boot Camp event in Coralville, Iowa.
An updated version of the Financial Guidelines for Agriculture has been released by the Farm Financial Standards Council. With a January 2019 issue date, this 272-page edition replaces other versions of the document that have been in circulation since 1991. The most recent prior update was done in 2017. Order
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