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Marketing Yourself to Potential Business Partners, Landowners and Customers

February 18, 2020

To market yourself to potential business partners, landowners and customers, you need to have a plan. Keith Dickinson discusses a communication tool to connect the values and goals of your business to potential investors.

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  • Fraud Alert: Caller ID Spoofing

    The Association sets its highest priority to protect our customer’s information. A common scam is Caller ID Spoofing which occurs when a caller deliberately falsifies the information transmitted to your caller ID display to disguise their identity. The persons committing this fraud may be seeking personal information such as social security numbers or other personal financial information. Never give out personal information such as account numbers, Social Security numbers, mother's maiden names, passwords or other identifying information in response to unexpected calls or if you are at all suspicious.

    If you get an inquiry from someone who says they are associated with Farm Credit East, hang up and call your local branch office which is reflected on your account statement. Farm Credit East will always verify your identity using specific, pre-set security questions before engaging in a discussion about your account.

  • In The News

    • Farm Credit East Pays $70 Million in Patronage Dividends
      Farm Credit East, ACA, the Northeast’s largest agricultural lending cooperative, announced its distribution of a record $70 million in cash patronage dividends to more than 11,250 farm, fishing and forestry business owners and operators across Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. On average, eligible customers received about a 1.04% reduction in their effective interest rate as a result of this patronage distribution.
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    • Reminder: Spring Crop Sales Closing

      The deadline to insure spring crops in the northeast for the 2020 crop year is March 15, 2020. Insurable spring crops include field and vegetable crops such as corn, soybeans, barley, oats, fresh market sweet corn, cabbage, processing beans, processing sweet corn, dry beans, green peas, fresh market beans, tomatoes, tobacco and potatoes.

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    • Farm Credit East Provides Scholarships to Four Future Agricultural Leaders

      Farm Credit East recently awarded $500 scholarships to four students in the National FFA Organization to help support their Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE).

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Knowledge Exchange

Knowledge Exchange Partner

The Forest Products Industry: A Key Part of the Northeast Economy

Forests, and the industries that rely upon them, are a cornerstone of the Northeast’s rural economy. Eric Kingsley, Vice President of Innovative Natural Resource Solutions LLC, discusses how the way we utilize the forest is ever changing, and the opportunities and challenges this shifting landscape presents.

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  • Webinars

    Green Industry Outlook

    Join Farm Credit East on Wednesday, March 18 for a green industry outlook featuring Dr. Charlie Hall of Texas A&M University. Dr. Hall will present an overview of the general U.S. economy, talk about consumer trends and give an overall forecast for the coming year's nursery, greenhouse and landscape sectors. This free webinar will begin at 11AM EDT.

  • Reports

    2019 Milk Marketing Update

    In this report, Farm Credit East is pleased to present viewpoints from two leading experts in the field of milk marketing: Dr. Mark Stephenson, Director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin, and Lucas Fuess, Director of Dairy Market Intelligence at HighGround Dairy.

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