RISE & SHINE
Growing a Brighter Future for Ohio’s Farms
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
A Better Ref lection of the
Farm Economy
Mark Fearon
2
Grain Glitch Fixed, Unfair
Advantage Averted
Brian Kempf
3
The “Four Pillars” Strategy
Scott Moyer
4
Protecting Your Wealth
Inez Bowie
5
Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late
DEAR READERS,
Since 1938, Rea & Associates has had the pleasure of helping farmers throughout Ohio grow
brighter futures for themselves, their families and their communities. We are proud of the
friendships we’ve made along the way and we look forward to forging an even brighter future
together. To this end, we hope you will continue to find success in your ongoing endeavors – and
we believe that we can help you along the way.
Rise & Shine is a free, quarterly newsletter that will provide those in agriculture and the
agribusiness industry with valuable business insight, management tips, valuation advice, personal
finance information and so much more. As a full-service CPA firm, Rea & Associates has provided
clients with expert financial and business consultation services that have helped drive positive,
long-term results for 80 years. We will use these pages to share the experiences and techniques
we’ve picked up along the way.
We hope that you will consider Rise & Shine to be your go-to resource for insight into various
aspects of agribusiness ownership. As we continue to publish this newsletter, we encourage you
to get involved by providing us with your own questions or even suggesting topics you would like
the business professionals at Rea & Associates to address in an upcoming edition. Additionally,
if you would like to learn more about a specific topic covered in one of our articles, you are more
than welcome to reach out directly to the article’s author.
Ben Froese
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Thank you,
No Better Time Like the
Present
Tim McDaniel
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Vol. 1 | Issue 1 | Summer 2018
Brian Kempf, CPA
Principal & Agribusiness Specialist
212 N. Washington St, Millersburg, OH 44654
330.521.4549
[email protected]
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