Financial Crisis

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• Strong balance sheet and a good business plan opens lender doors, according to Paul DeBriyn, President and CEO of AgStar Financial.

SwineCast 0401 Show Notes:

• Vice President of Market Segments for Farm Credit Services of Mid-America, Bill Medley, reviews "How Wall Street Is Impacting Credit To Farmers".  Link to full presentation with charts.

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• How are Wall Street's problems and your incentive system related?  Dr Dennis DiPietre looks at his recent blog post on the Headliners tab above
• Higher unemployment numbers may expand your hiring pool but onboarding will have a larger impact on your retention.  And that's what hiring is all about

SwineCast 0343 Show Notes:

• Dealing with current financial unrest on mainstreet.  How local businesses are affected
• Feed Energy's Bob Riley looks at supplies, feed values, ethanol imports and quality of DDGs in todays market 

As you watch the U.S. financial system come close to a meltdown, the key phrase which will go down in history as the root of this problem is: "Socializing Costs and Privatizing Profits".  At the root of this problem is the vexing issue of incentives.  As I watch commentator and legislator impugn the "free-market" as the cause of this current crisis, I get a sinking feeling that the "fix" which eventually comes out of this will miss the root cause by a wide mark and not lead us to a stable, growth-oriented future.