2026 Ag Mentors Has Openings
We have a few openings still available for professional service firms to join
Lance Woodbury and I started the Ag Mentors peer group program for CPAs and other professionals who work with farmers in 2024. We are now starting our third year and we have some openings left in our second in-person group and likely if we had enough demand we would open a third group.
Here are the key details and if you are interested, please feel free to reach out to me directly at farmcpa@outlook.com or paul@farmcpareport.com.
Started in 2024, the goal of Ag Mentors is to bring agriculture accounting firm practitioners and leaders to learn together, learn from one another, and build relationships to help strengthen their practices. We provide agriculture-focused and practice management CPE with opportunities for interaction designed around the issues most important to those participating in the groups.
1. In Person Meeting Dates for 2026
a. Spring Meeting (Kansas City): April 22 (1 PM) to April 24 (11 AM)
b. Fall Meeting (Denver or Phoenix): October 28 (1 PM) to October 30 (11 AM)
2. Virtual Meetings for July 2026 and January 2027
· Two, 4.5-hour meetings with a half-hour break. 6 hours of CPE total (~3 hours each meeting).
· Tuesday, July 14th, 10:00 AM Central to 2:30 PM Central (half-hour break)
· Tuesday, January 19th, 2027, 10 AM Central to 2:30 PM Central (half-hour break)
3. Pricing: (In person meeting travel, hotel, and some meals covered by participants)
a. $7,500 for the first seat, second seat is $500 intended to be at the same meeting.
b. Participating in another in-person group (if we start another group) is the same structure: $7,500 first seat, $500 second seat.
c. Seats can be shifted between people in the same firm, but we are aiming to keep consistency in firms attending each group meeting.
d. Virtual meetings only: $2,000 per firm, no limit on number of participants.
4. Other benefits
a. Weekly “Book Club” post by Lance covering business, relationship, or professional service firm books starting January 19. The first book will be “Unreasonable Hospitality: The remarkable power of giving people more than they expect” by Will Guidara (Amazon link here).
b. Resending of popular posts from Paul’s blog from prior weeks.
c. Monthly “Office Hours” videoconference with Paul and Lance to talk about any technical, policy, practitioner, or practice management issues.
d. Public directory: Firm name, locations, number of owners, number of employees, percentage of business ag-focused, and primary types of ag operations served (row crop, permanent crop, cattle, hogs, dairy, poultry, etc.). Any other special expertise, or other firm services (wealth management, business valuation, etc.), primary software packages (tax, time/billing (practice management), CRM if different, AI tools, client-facing systems (QB, Redwing, Zero, Figured, etc.)
e. For in person members only: Anonymized data including firm revenue, service line revenue, average key client revenue, rates, realization, average partner compensation, average starting staff salary or salaries at certain levels, ownership structure, governance model. We expect the anonymized data will be shared in the in-person groups to facilitate deeper discussions and break outs, but with permission of the participants. We will also look for input as we develop this component.