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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.
Register Now for the 2024 FINPACK Lenders Conference
Register today for the 2024 FINPACK Lenders Conference — Dec 11-12, 2024 at the Radisson Blu Mall of America and take advantage of early bird and group discounts. The FINPACK Lenders Conferences brings you the latest updates in Ag & Commercial lending from an outstanding lineup of speakers, including Dave Kohl, Sam Miller, Brad Stevens, Ed Usset and more. Learn about the latest FINPACK updates, meet the FINPACK team, and network with fellow FINPACK users. Visit the FINPACK Lenders Conference page to register today, and learn more about accommodation options and agenda. We look forward to seeing you in December!
Helping your Customers: Evaluating Land Rental Decisions
Many of your Ag borrowers rent some or all of the land they farm, and arriving at an affordable...
FINPACK News August Digest
Register today for the FINPACK Lenders Conference, helping your customers develop and interpret financial statements and plan for the future, FINPACK FAQs with the FINPACK support team and more!
Frequently Asked FINPACK Questions
Handling distributions from partnerships in annual cash flow, dealing with error messages in loan presentations, completing a cash flow without an existing balance sheet and more in this edition of Frequently Asked FINPACK Questions with the FINPACK Support Team.