The Agriculture Lending Guidelines contain product sheets for a variety of loans, checklists, and tools that can be adapted and utilized by loan officers during loan applications, appraisal, approval,...
This is a technical operations manual that contains detailed information on agriculture lending concepts, principles, and procedures.
The market research guide provides detailed information on how to undertake market research for developing agricultural products. It offers guidance on defining the objectives of your research, identi...
This resource includes materials used to train agricultural clients on business development and financial management skills.
An organization's borrowers should have available a wide variety of payment programs and loan terms. This document provides support for an organization to maximize service to its borrowers, while also...
The following document includes guidelines and/or checklists for credit assessments and analysis.
This is a technical operations manual that contains detailed information on agriculture lending concepts, principles, and procedures.
Once a bank has completed its market assessment and has decided to build an agricultural lending business, the management will need to prepare an agricultural lending unit’s business plan. This tool ...
Once a bank has decided to take a more in-depth look into the market for agricultural lending, this tool helps a bank to prepare for a thorough assessment, which may involve hiring outside experts.
This tool presents a matrix of questions and issues to help guide a bank’s thinking about how to build an agricultural lending business. Questions are organized around key themes, including the state...
This tool provides a simplified example of how a bank can present strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to agricultural lending.
This simple template provides a tool to organize and compare different agricultural lending competitors in the following categories: product features, product prices, promotion and positioning approa...