2024 was one of the best years for the First National Ag Team.
We continued providing value to our customer relationships. We continued to add new, talented team members and to grow our footprint.
2025 will prove to be even better, with some exciting changes coming this year that we will announce in the months to come. But first, allow me to talk about how our year has started.
A closer look at 2025
Recently, we hosted customer events in Chamberlain and Redfield as our two remote lenders, Todd Van Den Bosch and Pyne Lenocker, continue to grow their customer relationships.
Couple that with strong growth in all of our other trade areas, and we’ve hit a milestone for loans and deposits within our department.
It’s gratifying and humbling to work with such a great group of ag experts, as well as customers who have entrusted their financial well-being to us at The First National Bank in Sioux Falls.
As we continue striving to build successful relationships, I’d like to highlight our annual Cultivate Your Future event.
The First National Ag Team is honored and excited to present the 16th annual Cultivate Your Future event on Wednesday, February 12, 2025.
We have an amazing lineup of speakers for this year’s event, with the schedule as follows:
- 10:30 a.m. Arrival and Registration
- 11:00 a.m. Matt Reardon
- 12:00 p.m. Lunch
- 12:30 p.m. Tregg Cronin – Grain Marketing Update
- 2:00 p.m. Joe Santos – Global Economic Update
- 3:30 p.m. Social
This event is one of the many ways we accomplish our goal of building, or “cultivating,” successful relationships with our local farmers and producers.
We understand that everyone is busy nowadays, but we feel like everyone should be a lifelong learner — and Cultivate Your Future is an opportunity to sharpen your skills and stay well informed, giving you a leg up on other area producers.
As farming is a business, our lineup of speakers will provide the unique opportunity to learn about global economics, the industry’s best weather outlook, grain marketing information, and some of the challenges we’ll face in the coming years from an ever-changing consumer perception of the way we operate.
We look forward to seeing you on February 12! You can find us at Hilton Garden Inn South, located at 5300 South Grand Circle in Sioux Falls.
Don’t worry about RSVPing, and we invite you to bring a guest. Lunch will be provided, and we’ll have a happy hour to follow.
As always, if you have any questions about your operation and how things are looking for 2025, you can reach out to me at (605) 214-0546 or to your banker directly.
