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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!
FINPACK Annual Update Available Now!
The 2025 FINPACK update adds new installation options, new tax forms features and updates, allows for more detail report options in cash flow projections, incorporates new Financial Standards Measures and RMA data, and more!
FINPACK October Digest
Register for the FINPACK Lenders Conference, helping your customers evaluate land rental decisions, a new cover crop report, how to approach credit analysis in FINPACK, using the FSA Forms package in FINPACK & more in the October News Digest!
How to Use the FSA Forms Package in FINPACK
The FINPACK FSA Forms Package allows you to generate the required forms for an FSA Guaranteed or Direct Loan. As a lender, you begin by creating the cash flow projection including the loan(s) you are requesting an FSA Guaranteed Loan for. A monthly or annual cash flow projection (FINFLO) can be completed and utilized for the guaranteed loan request.
How to Approach FINPACK: A Step-by-Step Guide
FINPACK offers a wealth of tools and functionality, and it can be hard to know where to start. Our step-by-step guide offers a broad overview of the tools and the best way to approach credit analysis in FINPACK. You’ll find links throughout to more detailed guides for each section as well as our white paper in the FINPACK Knowledge Base.
FINPACK Lender Training – Register Now
Registration closes soon for the next in-person FINPACK Lender Training session, October 8th & 9th, right here on the University of Minnesota, St. Paul campus. FINPACK lender training offers lenders two days of practical, hands-on training with insights into all the components of FINPACK.
New Cover Crops Report and Climate Smart Ag Resources
The Center for Farm Financial Management at the University of Minnesota — including FINPACK team members Pauline Van Nurden, Katherine Wilts Johnson, and Mariah Beverly — have collaborated with Mai Lan Hoang and Vincent Gauthier at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to produce The Economics of Cover Crops on Minnesota Farms 2023 Data Report.