Paul Dietmann

Paul Dietmann is Vice President of New Markets at Compeer Financial, a member-owned Farm Credit System cooperative in the upper Midwest. He leads Compeer’s Emerging Markets program, providing loans and business planning assistance to farmers who market their products directly to consumers or who are engaged in value-added production, processing, or marketing. He also leads the co-op’s Young, Beginning and Small (YBS) Farmer program. He is based in Prairie du Sac, WI.

Dietmann has been helping family farmers with farm financial management issues since the mid-1990s, first as a county agricultural agent, then as Director of the Wisconsin Farm Center, as Wisconsin’s Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, and now with the Farm Credit System. He is co-author of the book Fearless Farm Finances: Farm Financial Management Demystified and author of Turning Grain Into Dough: Farm Financial Management for Organic Grain and Crop Rotation. He teaches dozens of workshops each year on a variety of topics related to farm finances.