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YEAR-END IS NEAR! Year-end financial reports allow for a review of your financial progress over the past year while also providing critical information necessary to evaluate future business needs. Beyond the benefit to your business management, it also supports your future loan needs. GreenStone works with many of its members to gather their year-end financial information, inputting the data into our systems to be able to help evaluate the financial position of each farm. Getting this done at year-end provides them a direct benefit throughout the year when additional financing is needed. With the financial information already entered in our system and analyzed, GreenStone is able to evaluate and process loans in a more timely and responsive manner. NEW This Year: Members who received this annual request to submit year-end financials to GreenStone will notice a few changes. The mailing will come to those members in December in a separate envelope for each entity/individual, even if it is the same address, to ensure privacy of your financial information. The balance sheet will look a little different this year and there will not be a full machinery/equipment and vehicle listing as our process have evolved. More specific instruction will be included in the package! ■

On behalf of the WI FFA Foundation Board or Directors, I would sincerely like to thank you for your generous donation to the WI Association of FFA. Your donation offers 21,000+ students the ability to experience premier leadership, personal growth and career success. It is because of people like you we are able to accomplish our mission by ensuring access to agricultural education and FFA for all students in WI. From the bottom of my heart, Thank you!

— -Katie Holewinski, FFA Foundation Board Member

“Thank you for sponsoring the Michigan State University Dairy Challenge program. This year Dairy Challenge looked a little different than in years past but continued to be an incredibly valuable experience for our team. We were thankful for the opportunity to compete virtually at the Midwest Regional contest in March as well as the National Dairy Challenge contest in April. At the National contest, we are excited to share that MSU captured our third consecutive national championship! We deeply appreciate your continued support which has helped our program reach our fullest potential. Thank you,

Thank you for your support for the 2021 Michigan Out-ofDoors Youth Camp Charity Shoot. Your contribution helps us to continue doing our work of educating youth about the importance of conservation and nature.

— 2021 MSU National Dairy Challenge Team, Beka McDonald, Kristen Burkhardt, Miriah Dershem, and Lynn Olthof

—Ian FitzGerald, Policy and Special Events Coordinator

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Tax Calendar

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page 45

Tech Tip – Securing Your Home Network.

4min
pages 46-48

Crop Insurance News

2min
page 42

Guest Column

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page 37

I was recently encouraged by a motivational speaker to give ourselves the grace to experiment. Meaning, embrace the perspective of it being ok to try something that may or may not bring the desired result – you won’t know, you won’t grow, you won’t make an impact, if you don’t try. At first I thought, YES, we should feel empowered to try and fail, learn and adjust, and try again. But as I started brainstorming which experiment I wanted to test first, it hit me…isn’t that actually what we do every day? Running a business, raising a family, building a house, managing a team… it doesn’t really matter where you’re focused, you always need to be thinking about something new, trying a new approach – problem solving. In fact, on page 5 our young farmers (Kristi and Nate Shopbell) certainly didn’t predict and plan perfectly every step of the way. They experimented to find the desired grape mixture for their favorite wine, the best way to overcome recent COVID roadblocks, and exactly how to be prepared for what Mother Nature throws at the vineyard. And young Sadie on page 29 didn’t have complete success the first time with her garden and vegetable stand on her family’s, the Mostroms, new home and recreational property. When it comes to experiments, farming definitely comes to mind. Growing fruit, like all crops, is a never-ending experiment of plants and nutrients and insurance protection, which Railside Orchard and the Roth family can relate to, as shared on

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Budgeting for Your Needs and Wants.

2min
page 36

Commodity Cuisine Easy Apple Cinnamon Rolls

1min
page 35

Country Living Blog Brief

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PAC Progress

7min
pages 29-32

Legislative Matters

2min
page 28

Director's Perspective

2min
page 27

Intern Wrap-up

2min
page 21

Behind the Scenes

1min
page 22

The Benefits of Leasing

3min
page 26

Pause for Applause

1min
page 20

CEO Comments

10min
pages 4-8

Candid Comments

2min
page 19

Guest Column

5min
pages 16-17

Member News

2min
page 18

MAEAP Reverification

2min
page 15

YBSF Resources

5min
pages 10-11

Agriculture Blog Brief

1min
page 9

Market Outlook

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pages 12-14
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