farm credit

Eating Our Own Farm Financial Cooking

January 7, 2012
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
banks, beginning farmers, Dean Harrington, diverse agriculture, Farm Beginnings, farm credit, Farm Service Agency, First National Bank of Plainview, grass-based livestock, Land Stewardship Project, lenders, organic agriculture, organic dairy, organic vegetables, Plainview Minnesota, rural banks, sustainable agriculture

One winter evening in 1999 I was sitting in on a Farm Beginnings class being held in the southeast Minnesota community of Plainview when a local banker stood up and made a…
Links in the Beginning Farmer Chain

February 25, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
ag lending, beginning farmers, dairy profitability, Farm Beginnings, farm credit, Ideker, organic dairy, Paul Olson, rotational grazing

If sweat equity is a key ingredient in launching a farming enterprise, then Jim and Alan Ideker have enough venture capital to fire-up half-a-dozen enterprises.