Helping farmers manage financial risk with football metaphor

Helping farmers manage financial risk with football metaphor

Provided by Farm Credit Mid-America

The senior vice president of agricultural lending with Farm Credit Mid-America is using football as a financing metaphor to help farmers manage risk.

Steve Witges says, for example, there are three layers of defense protecting the endzone, a farmer’s financial wellbeing

“You have the defensive line, that first line of defense stopping the opposition from getting into your endzone. I equate that to your earnings within your farming operation,” he says.

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