December 1, 2025

Business Tips and Tools

Fall 2025 Financial Partner

 
In this Edition
Defining Culture to Transform Your Farm Business

As your business grows, doing everything yourself isn’t sustainable. Success depends on empowering others. Training your team not only improves efficiency, but also reinforces the core values that define your company’s culture. A strong culture shapes decisions, collaboration and resilience, creating a shared purpose that drives long-term growth.

Additional Content

  • CEO Mike Reynolds describes how Farm Credit East has implemented culture with "The Farm Credit East Way"
  • Read Financial Services Leader Josh Volta's perspective on culture as a veteran of the Marine Corps
  • An update from Board Chair John Knopf about Advancing our Customer-First Strategy
  • Learn more about technology implementation to evolve how we deliver credit
  • In CyberSense, learn Tips to Strengthen Your Digital Security
  • In the Stewardship Spotlight, read about Farm Credit East's new Food Access Infrastructure Initiative Grant and its first recipients
  • Farm Credit East Cares donated both time and money this year in the form of volunteer work and donations to local community organizations
  • Celebrate milestones for employees of Farm Credit East
  • Read about Treeline, Inc.'s relationship with Farm Credit East in A Family Affair
  • Lastly, read about the importance of advocacy on the road to a new Farm Bill in Washington Update

Tags: policy, business management, community support, cybersecurity, farm management, leadership, legislation, productivity, stewardship