Awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** the center for farm financial…

Awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** the center for farm financial management (cffm) will maintain and expand the existing national farm financial database, finbin, with a focus on expanding collaborations to help producers answer important financial and economic questions relating to topics such as conservation practices, direct marketing, and aquaculture. This project will continue to work to remove geographical barriers from farm business management education by continuing to pilot the virtual farm business management program with the farmer veteran coalition in various regions of the country. This project will also collaborate with partners to expand the emerging aquaculture benchmarking project and other emerging programs across the country. Cffm will work with collaborators to increase the amount of direct marketing and value-added enterprises submitted to the national database, making IT more representative of the entire spectrum of U.S. Agricultural producers. To enhance the efficiency of financial analysis from contributing programs, this project will expand the use of a cloud-based version of finpack (finpack+) for farm business management educators. Additionally, this project will develop the ability in the national database to benchmark fields using cover cropping practices over multiple years to better assess any potential impacts of those practices.