AgChat session 6/08/2010

Question 1:

How would you describe your farm’s financial outlook? If not farming, what’s your forecast?

Question 2:

What should Ag finance look like to make farming more affordable for beginning ranchers/farmers?

Question 3:

What areas would you like to learn more about with respect to farm finances?

Question 4:

What are some ‘creative’ financing steps/actions that are being explored to fund new or ongoing operations?

Question 5:

What are creative ways farmers are cutting costs to balance books/maintain stable finances?

Question 6:

What metrics are farms using for measuring profitability and are any more useful than others?

Question 7:

How comfortable are you reporting your financial information to lenders today?

Thanks to Truffle Media for archiving this
week’s chat