CEO Comments:
2021-Making Tracks How can any two years be so different in almost the blink of an eye? As we approach the one-year anniversary of our lives being turned upside down by COVID-19 in March of 2020, it’s getting harder to remember what life was like in the last few of months of what we nostalgically refer to as “normal.” Here at GreenStone, I remember our preoccupation with the impact the wettest conditions in nearly forty years had on yields and ultimately our customers’ financial performance. We were getting ready to launch the State of Michigan’s 2019 Low Interest Disaster Loan program, participating in the national Farm Credit System Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., hosting our members during our annual Patronage Day celebration at all of our branches, and so on. Plus, all those little things we took for granted like getting a haircut, coming to work in the morning, eating out, going to the theater, attending sporting events, etc. All routine things that few of us likely would have considered blessings. As I’ve said before, up to this point the Coronavirus was like a “tsunami ripple” far out to sea that we thought would have little impact on our daily lives. Certainly, the preliminary reports about the virus causing widespread sickness and deaths in China we thought would never happen here even if, by some remote chance, it did make it to the United States.
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Winter 2021 — Partners
