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Editing transactions with AgExpert: Pt. 1

Even the best bookkeepers don't always get it right the first time. Here's how to fix it

Making corrections to previously posted AgExpert Analyst transactions is something every user will inevitably need to learn how to do. My mistakes in data entry often happen when I’m trying to multi-task, in a rush, or working late at night. Most busy producers can relate! Thankfully, making corrections and changes to an account number or amount, changing […] Read more

Pay off debts before selling the farm

Farm Financial Planner: This Manitoba couple can pay off their debts and look forward to a reasonable retirement

In south central Manitoba, a couple we’ll call Herb and Cathy, both 64, are looking ahead to their future. They have farmed grain for more than two decades and have two children, a son age 40 and a daughter, 42. Each has a career off-farm and neither has an interest in returning to the family […] Read more


The inevitable rise in interest rates

Guarding Wealth: Interest rates are going to have to rise sooner than later. The trick will be in the timing

It is inevitable that interest rates will rise, but when that will happen, nobody knows. On Sept. 17, the U.S. Federal reserve announced that, yet again, the inevitable increase would be postponed, perhaps to December, perhaps beyond. Until then, the Fed will keep interest rates at the emergency level that has prevailed for half a […] Read more