First National Bank of Plainview

Eating Our Own Farm Financial Cooking

January 7, 2012
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
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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…