Dale Nordquist is associate director of the Center for Farm Financial Management. His areas of focus include farm business analysis, financial planning, credit analysis and software development. He has over 30 years of experience in teaching farm management and developing software tools for farm financial planning and analysis. He is a board member of the Farm Financial Standards Council and a former chair of the FFSC technical committee. Dale has also been a major contributor to the design and development of the FINPACK farm financial planning and analysis software as well as the FINBIN Farm Financial Database and many other software tools available from the Center For Farm Financial Management.