Amy Weum, Relationship Manager for CoBank Farm Credit Leasing’s partnership with AgDirect

Cory Nordhausen, Regional Vice President-AgDirect

Greg Roberg, Regional Vice President-AgDirect

Farm Equipment magazine invites you to view the August installment of our webinar series. On Thursday, August 14th at 10 am Central time, we were joined by Amy Weum with CoBank Farm Credit Leasing and Greg Roberg and Cory Nordhausen with AgDirect, to explore the ways leasing can help you and your customers preserve and build profitability.

Amy Weum has invested more than 15 years in all aspects of farm equipment leasing, from sales and origination to lease accounting, lease training, leasing software development and asset remarketing. The University of Wisconsin graduate currently is relationship manager for CoBank Farm Credit Leasing’s partnership with AgDirect, an equipment financing program offered by Farm Credit Services of America and the partners of AgDirect, LLP.

Weum – joined by AgDirect regional vice presidents Cory Nordhausen and Greg Roberg – explain the applications of leasing in the farm equipment business, including leasing’s benefits in the 2014 tax environment.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• What is a lease?
• What’s the difference between a lease and a loan?
• What types of agricultural equipment can be leased?
• Why customers lease: the business benefits of leasing
• How can a lease save agricultural producers money?
• What type of lease is best: Lease types from an accounting and tax perspective
• Why the 2014 tax environment makes leasing attractive
• Examples: How leasing helps…