Saint Paul, MN
Joined August 2009
At the @UMNews, NIFA's Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program helped 4,398 participants start farming/ranching, prepared 22,072 participants to start farming/ranching between 2016-2021. See how BFRDP participants improved their operations & more: nifa.usda.gov/about-nifa/imp…
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Happy National Ag Day! Today we celebrate the hard work of American farmers and ranchers. @cffm is proud to support farmers and ranchers with our financial planning, financial analysis, business planning and commodity marketing tools. #NationalAGDay
On #NationalAgDay we celebrate the hard work and dedication of American farmers and ranchers. Farm Answers is proud to support all types of beginning farmers and ranchers across the country.
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Happy Holidays from the Center for Farm Financial Management! Our office will be closed Friday, December 22nd, through Tuesday, December 26th, in observance of the holiday. Our staff will be back in the office on Wednesday, December 27th.
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Happy Thanksgiving from our team at the Center for Farm Financial Management! Our offices are closed today, November 23rd, and tomorrow, November 24th, in observance of the holiday. 🦃
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FINBIN is one of the largest and most accessible sources of farm financial and production benchmark information in the world and was developed by CFFM. Visit FINBIN.umn.edu to be one of over 50,000 producers to use FINBIN to help analyze your farm business.
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Our Associate Director, Bob Craven, was awarded the Blanchfield Award at the @ABABankers Ag Bankers Conference this week in Oklahoma City. The award recognizes the contributions of a non-banker who has made significant additions to the advancement of agricultural lending.
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Tune in to this episode of the Farm Answers podcast as we celebrate veterans and hear Anne Fanatico and Lynn Gibbard of Frontline to Farm share their work helping veterans transition to farming through training modules, farm tours, and on-farm trainings. farmanswers.captivate.fm
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CFFM team members @EdsWorld and Bob Craven joined @Tyne_Ag by the bulls this morning to discuss grain markets and farm profitability on the @USFarmReport College Roadshow.
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The annual FINPACK update is now available. The update will be deployed automatically to FINPACK+ users. For users of FINPACK installed, the update process is simple. Visit FINPACK News or the @cffm website to learn more! finpack.umn.edu/news/finpack…
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This week CFFM team members traveled to Denver for the @USDA_NIFA BFRDP project directors meeting. This meeting brought together over 200 educators across 147 organizations, all with a special focus on working with beginning farmers.
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Tune in to this episode of the Farm Answers podcast to hear Andrea Smith of the High Desert Food & Farm Alliance share their work supporting beginning farmers and ranchers. farmanswers.captivate.fm
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Barney Binless and Hank Holder are back with @EdsWorld for the 3rd Edition of Grain Marketing is Simple (it's just not easy). Take home your copy today! cffm.umn.edu/simple/
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FarmAnswers.org was developed by @cffm as the official Clearinghouse for BFRDP. Join members of the Clearinghouse team on this episode of the podcast to learn more about what the Clearinghouse is and what it does for beginning farmers. farmanswers.captivate.fm
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Members of the CFFM team traveled to Seattle this week to meet with organizations from all over the nation that work specifically with underserved agricultural producers. We shared many of our educational resources including AgPlan.umn.edu and AgTransitions.umn.edu!
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Bob Craven, Associate Director of the Center for Farm Financial Management, will be honored with the American Bankers Association Blanchfield Award at this year’s ABA Ag Bankers Conference in Oklahoma City. Congratulations, Bob!
FINPACK team-member Bob Craven will be honored with the American Bankers Association Blanchfield Award at this year’s ABA Ag Bankers Conference in Oklahoma City. finpack.umn.edu/news/robert-… #finpack #americanbankersassociation
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The Minnesota Crop Insurance Conference continues to be one of the largest continuing education conferences for crop insurance agents in the midwest. Last week almost 400 in-person and over 200 online attendees heard from speakers on various industry trends and updates.
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