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Helping Your Customers: Determining Costs of Production
To aid producers in determining the costs of production for their crops, the Center for Farm Financial Management has created CropCost. CropCost is a new tool that identifies the cost of production for each crop the producer grows and gives breakeven costs of production at varying yield and expense amounts.
2025 National School for Experienced Ag Bankers: Register Now!
The FINPACK Team wants to draw your attention to an excellent educational opportunity this summer – the 2025 National School for Experienced Ag Bankers. The Center for Farm Financial Management has had a long relationship with this school, and our staff serve as part of the teaching team — including members of the FINPACK team — along with a talented group of seasoned ag bankers.
New FINPACK Update Available Now!
A new FINPACK update is now available!
Accrual Analysis & Year-end Balance Sheets
As the new year begins, many producers will begin to review their farm financial situation. It’s a great time to encourage your agricultural borrowers to complete their balance sheets. For producers whose fiscal year coincides with the calendar year, January 1 is an excellent date for the annual Balance Sheet. Also, a January 1 balance sheet allows for a full year of data to analyze and provides a good starting point for the new year.
Tools to Assist in the Renewal Season
As you prepare for loan renewals at your lending institution, consider these FINPACK tools to help make the process smoother and more streamlined for you and your customer.
FINPACK Holiday Hours
The FINPACK offices will be closed on the following days during the holiday period:
Tuesday, December 24th
Wednesday, December 25th
Thursday, December 26th
Wednesday, January 1st
We wish all our customers, partners, and staff a safe and peaceful holiday season.
Helping Your Ag Borrowers: Evaluating Market Channel Profitability
To help producers analyze the profitability of the market channels they sell to, the Center for Farm Financial Management has created My Market Profit, a new tool that helps producers identify the costs, returns, and profits for each market in five easy steps.
FINPACK Monthly Digest
FAQs from the FINPACK Support Team, the FINPACK team at ABA Ag Bankers, the FINPACK annual udpate and more!
FINPACK FAQs from the FINPACK Support Team
Installing FINPACK without local admin rights, handling hay crop units, changing the unit of measurement of crop/ livestock, changing the ‘prepared by’ name, and more in the latest FAQS from the FINPACK support team!
FINPACK at ABA Ag Bankers
Thank you to everyone who visited the FINPACK team at the American Bankers Association Ag Bankers Conference in Milwaukee last week. We enjoyed catching up with long-time partners and users, and meeting a lot of new folks as well! We look forward to seeing many of you at the FINPACK Lenders Conference, December 11-12 at the Radisson Blu Mall of America!