Webinar Series: Helping Family Farmers Through Financial Distress and Disputes – September 25-October 2, 2024
Professional Development Webinar Series
Helping Family Farmers Through Financial Distress and Disputes
A free four-part series on Zoom
September 25-October 2, 2024
It is often said that credit is the lifeblood of farming. In general, many farmers borrow money in the spring to plant, tend, and harvest their crops. Farmers plan to repay their creditors toward the end of the year when they have received payments for their products. But, serious price, production, weather, pest, and other difficulties often occur and ultimately become credit problems, resulting in disputes between farmers and their lenders. Farmers’ understanding of how to access credit, know their legal rights, and handle financial disputes, can be the difference between getting through a bad year and losing the farm.
For some farmers, such as those who are small, diversified, sustainable, organic, socially disadvantaged, or historically underserved, credit struggles and disputes can be especially difficult.
Farmers’ Legal Action Group (FLAG) is offering a free four-part professional development Zoom series for agriculture professionals to help give them the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to help farmers in financial distress or in disputes with lenders.
The fourth edition of FLAG’s Farmers’ Guide to Minnesota Lending Law was published on September 18, 2024 and is the basis for the upcoming professional development webinar series. That guide can be viewed or downloaded here.
FLAG Deputy Director and Senior Staff Attorney Stephen Carpenter, and FLAG Senior Staff Attorney Lindsay Kuehn, will present information on the following topics in Zoom webinars:
Overview of Minnesota Agricultural Lending Law
September 25, 2024, 12:00-1:00 PM
Register here for September 25
Unsecured Farm Credit; Operating Loans
September 27, 2024, 12:00-1:00 PM
Register here for September 27
Real Estate; Leases; Farmer-Lender Mediation
September 30, 2024, 12:00-1:00 PM
Register here for September 30
New Farm Service Agency Farm Lending Rules; Discrimination in USDA Farm Lending Programs
October 2, 2024, 12:00-1:00 PM
Register here for October 2
