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Join Farm Credit East, Cornell University’s Dr. Chris Wolf and Dr. Marin Bozic of the University of Minnesota for Farm Credit East’s annual dairy outlook webinar on Wednesday, January 24 at 1:00 pm. This webinar is free to attend for all interested dairy producers.

Farm Credit East, the Northeast’s largest agricultural lender, recently awarded $65,000 in higher education scholarships to 38 student recipients. Farm Credit East’s scholarship program supports students with diverse career aspirations in agriculture, commercial fishing, forest products and related fields from across the association’s eight-state territory, including three diversity candidate recipients.

In conjunction with National FFA Week (February 18-25), Farm Credit East is pleased to announce the awarding of eight scholarships to students involved in The National Future Farmers of America (FFA) Organization to support their Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE). The scholarship recipients had strong projects and expressed a clear understanding of their projects’ impacts on their future careers in agriculturally related fields. 

Farm Credit East hosted a webinar summarizing the ornamental horticulture industry in 2020, as well as an outlook for 2021 with presenter, Dr. Charlie Hall, Texas A&M University. This free webinar was held Tuesday, March 2.

A successful manager is required to master many aspects of their agricultural business. To help the next generation develop the necessary business and financial skills, Farm Credit East is currently seeking interested up-and-coming leaders to attend its virtual GenerationNext seminar series. Sessions begin January 19.

2020 was a remarkable year for the dairy industry due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Join Farm Credit East for a review of the 2020 Northeast Dairy Farm Summary and a 2021 mid-year outlook of the dairy industry on Wednesday, June 23, at 11 a.m.

As the new year begins, producers need forecasts and strategies in order to solidify their 2023 risk management plans. Join Crop Growers, LLP for two free 2023 outlook and risk management webinars being hosted this January: 2023 Crop Insurance Strategies and Outlook, and Dairy Outlook 2023 – Managing Your Risk: Markets, Margins and Revenue. 

Dr. Bob Maltsbarger, senior research economist with the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, gives his insights on continued high input costs and the state of the cash grain and oilseed industries for 2023 in this month's Knowledge Exchange Partner.

The Farm Credit System today reported that combined net income increased 18.2% to $1.7 billion for the first quarter of 2021, as compared with $1.4 billion for the same period of the prior year.

At Farm Credit East’s Annual Meeting held earlier this week, the financial cooperative was pleased to announce two winners of the inaugural Lipinski Rural Initiatives award. Each recipient was awarded $25,000.