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How to Build a Balance Sheet For Your Farm Operation
The end of the year is the best time to work on your balance sheet for your farm operation. Watch the video to learn how to get started.View Details
Farm Business Optimization: Using Leasing as a Strategic Alternative to Traditional Financing
Learn how leasing equipment, facilities and assets can optimize farm cash flow and support growth as a strategic alternative to traditional financing.View Details
Nine Questions to Ask Your Lender
When exploring rural land loans, it’s crucial to ask the right questions to ensure you’re making an informed decision. Here are nine essential questions to discuss with your lender, like AgTrust Farm Credit, which have extensive experience in this...View Details
Build A Team Of Experts To Strengthen Your Farm Operation
Running a successful farming operation is a complex undertaking. It’s especially difficult for beginning farmers to know it all: Production expertise along with accounting, finance, risk management, human resources, technology and marketing. The good...View Details
Succession Planning For Farm Families
Succession planning for farm families - It’s a process that can be complicated, emotional and just plain hard to start a conversation about. That’s where Eric Brown comes in. Eric is a financial advisor with Legacy Capital Advisors, LLC and has been providing farmers and their families with practical, common-sense strategies to help them transition and preserve their legacies. In this episode of AgCredit Said It, Eric walks us through the biggest obstacles farm families struggle with and tips for approaching succession planning conversations.View Details
Episode 70: Looking at Financials Beyond the Balance Sheet with Nathan Buzard
As year end approaches, we know it’s time to start updating our balance sheets. The balance sheet gives a great snapshot of your operation, but when our loan team is looking at your financials, what else are they considering in the overall analysis...View Details
Increase Your Financial IQ: Tips For Working With A Lender
It’s no secret that agriculture is a capital-intensive industry, so it should be no surprise that many farmers turn to lenders to access the funds they need to buy livestock, equipment, facilities and land. Approaching a prospective lender can be...View Details
Roots of Success: Tips for Strong Mental Health on the Farm
Agriculture is the number one industry in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Providing key agricultural commodities to the rest of the nation and worldwide, the pressure to produce is real for farmers in the Southeast. To be a farmer is to deal with uncertainty. And farmers have had a slew of trying circumstances of late. Here are tips and resources in managing your mental health.View Details
Upcoming Events
Throughout the year and across the country, your local Farm Credit association hosts in-person and virtual events designed to help you start, manage and grow your farming operation. Browse through the AgBizInfo events to find the right event for you!