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FINPACK Fall Training Opportunities

The FINPACK team is offering multiple training opportunities over the coming months. Whether you’re trying to improve your skills on FINPACK’s Ag or Commercial tools, looking for in-person or online training, or searching for lunchtime webinars to help build your skills as a lender, you’ll find plenty of options starting this October. Learn more and register today, or contact us with any questions and we’ll be happy to help!

How to Help your Ag Customers

The Center for Farm Financial Management (CFFM), home of FINPACK, has an entire suite of educational resources to assist farmers in improving their business management and marketing abilities including AgPlan, a free online business planning software, FairRent, helping farmers evaluate land rental decisions, CropCost, assisting producers in determining their costs of production, and My Market Profit, a new tool that helps producers identify the costs, returns, and profits for each market in five easy steps.

How Much is a Good Manager Worth?

How much is a good business manager worth? As you analyze commercial business credits you likely wrestle with this question often. The longer you work with businesses, the easier becomes to pick out the good managers versus the bad ones. But how is this measured? The cash drivers report in FINPACK’s commercial analysis tackles this question.