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Credit Issues Conference
July 7, 2011
Holiday Inn Hotel and Convention Center
1001 Amber Avenue
Stevens Point, Wisconsin
This conference is designed to help make your job as credit manager easier by presenting updates on relevant credit
topics and related issues. A stronger, more effective credit program will result in a more successful cooperative that
will meet members' needs in a very competitive market. Please review the material carefully and sign up for this
excellent conference today.
Also, be sure to send in your cooperative’s credit application when you register for the conference.
This will give Joel Dahlgren, cooperative attorney with Black Dog Co-op Law, an opportunity to
review it before the conference.
KEY TOPICS
• Tools to Risk Management: Credit Limits and ACH Payments
• Picking the Winners—Is there a process cooperatives can use?
What are the key credit factors to consider?
• The Dairy Situation and Outlook
• Counter-Party Risk
• Legislative Update and Comments on Small Claims Court Procedures
• Legal Requirements for Credit Applications and Open Account agreements in Wisconsin
• How We Make Credit Work for Us
MEETING LOCATION
Holiday Inn Hotel and Convention Center
1001 Amber Avenue
Stevens Point, Wis.
(715) 344-0200
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact David Erickson, Cooperative Network Director of Member Services
(608) 258-4405 or
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Cooperative Network members: $150 per participant, Non-members: $200 per participant
Completed registration forms with payment must be received by the Cooperative Network office no later than
July 1, 2011. Mail completed forms and checks to:
Cooperative Network
1 South Pinckney Street, Suite 810
Madison, WI 53703-2869
fax: (608) 258-4407
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AGENDA |
| 7:45 a.m. |
Registration |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Overview of the Conference
David Erickson, Director of Member Services, Cooperative Network, Madison, Wis. |
| 8:40 a.m. |
Tools to Risk Management: Credit Limits and ACH Payments
What have lenders been able to do when dealing with producers who can't make payments?
Jason Brancel, Chief Credit Office, Landmark Services Cooperative, Cottage Grove, Wis.
Tom Haynes, Credit Manager, ,Landmark Services Cooperative, Cottage Grove, Wis. |
| 9:40 a.m. |
Picking the Winners
Is there a process co-ops can use when evaluating credit worthiness of large producers? What are the key credit
factors to consider?
Gary Sellen, Vice President of Business Development, AgQuest/Vaerity, Glenbeulah, Wis. |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:45
a.m. |
The Dairy Situation and Outlook
Dr. Robert Cropp, Professor Emeritus, UW-Madison, Madison, Wis. |
| 11:20a.m. |
Counter-Party Risk
Jeff Swanhorst, Senior Vice President of Credit, CoBank, Minneapolis, Minn. |
| 12:10 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:10 p.m. |
Legislative Update and Comments on Small Claims Court Procedures
John Manske, Director of Government Relations, Cooperative Network, Madison, Wis. |
| 1:45 p.m. |
Legal Requirements for Credit Applications and Open Account Agreements
Randy Anderson, Attorney, Law Offices of Kay and Anderson, LLC, Madison, Wis. |
| 2:45 p.m. |
Break |
| 3:00 p.m. |
How We Make Credit Work for Us (Panel)
Moderator: Gary Tomter, Northern Area Manager, CHS Business Solutions
Prairie du Sac, Wis. |
| 4:00 p.m. |
Adjourn |
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