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Jeff Reardon: Feb 17, 2015
The New Year brings a flurry of preparing financial statements and crunching financial ratios in an effort to get under the tax man’s bar or jump over the lender’s covenants. Shareholders and the Board of Directors are also anxiously pacing the...
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Jeff Reardon: Feb 10, 2015
The grain company CFO may have been viewed as a rare species prior to 2008, but the last 7 years have quickly brought the need for a CFO’s skill set...
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Sherry Lorton: Feb 3, 2015
A Plan in the Making
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Sherry Lorton: Jan 27, 2015
Planning with a Purpose
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Sherry Lorton: Jan 20, 2015
It is winter and the grain elevator is abuzz with activity . . . you have old crop bushels to empty out of the bin, grain to move off the farm, and...
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Over the last decade of traveling the country and visiting with grain elevator managers and merchandisers, I’ve seen and heard some pretty amazing...
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When you, the grain merchandiser, think in terms of the buyer/user being your customer – rather than you being his customer – it puts a different...
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This time of year, with football games aplenty, basketball games on 27 out of 32 channels, and baseball just around the corner, inspires this simple...
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Resisting the urge to float the current of all things holly and jolly, I have found a more unique, if not better, analogy for describing some of our...
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Sherry Lorton: Dec 2, 2014
The typical discussion that occurs with a farmer at the elevator or coffee shop centers a lot around price.
