2026–2027 programs
National conference
Who Really Holds the Risk? Managing Integrator and Concentration Exposure in Agricultural Lending
Matthew Bialick American Bankers Association Agricultural Bankers Conference
Matthew will speak on production agriculture, integrator relationships and concentration risk at the American Bankers Association’s national Agricultural Bankers Conference, held November 4–6, 2026, in Minneapolis. His November 5 session examines how contract terms, counterparty strength and disruptions in agricultural production relationships affect producers’ economics and lenders’ exposure.
View the ABA programThe Ag Lender’s Playbook for Workouts, Mediation, Collateral Conversion, and Chapter 12
Matthew Bialick BankIn Minnesota Ag Network
Matthew Bialick will present a practical program for agricultural lenders on managing troubled farm loans. Topics include identifying deteriorating agricultural credit, negotiating workouts and forbearance agreements, navigating Minnesota farmer-lender mediation, responding to collateral conversion, and understanding how Chapter 12 bankruptcy affects a bank’s collateral position and repayment prospects.
View the BankIn Minnesota programWebinar
When AI Becomes Exhibit A
Matthew Bialick Minnesota Bankers Association
A practical program on AI-related legal exposure for Minnesota banks. Commercial and agricultural lending scenarios illustrate how prompts, uploaded documents and generated drafts can become evidence, when counsel should become involved, and how preservation and discovery issues arise. The program also addresses legal and regulatory concerns involving lending, customer communications, confidential information, vendor tools, employment decisions and AI-enabled fraud.
View seminar detailsRecent presentations
Past program
Properly Documenting and Renewing Agricultural Loans
Matthew Bialick Minnesota Bankers Association
A program for agricultural lenders on loan documentation and renewals, including collateral and legal issues that can affect the bank’s position when a credit becomes troubled.
View the MBA programPast program · National CLE
Farm and Agribusiness Lending: Key Loan Terms, Workouts, and Enforcement Strategies
Matthew Bialick and Joseph M. Welch BARBRI–Strafford
A national continuing legal education program on farm and agribusiness financing. Matthew Bialick’s portion addressed agricultural litigation, including farm litigation and workouts involving agribusiness and agricultural finance.
View the publisher’s course listingPast program
Chapter 12, Part II: Hot Topics
Matthew Bialick, panelist Minnesota CLE 2025 Bankruptcy Institute
A panel addressing agricultural bankruptcy issues, including agricultural security interests and whether grain bins are fixtures. The original presentation was October 10, 2025; the organizer’s later online replay was October 30–31.
View the institute agendaPast program
Risk and Loss in a Commercial Real Estate Crisis
Matthew Bialick Minnesota Bankers Association
A banking program addressing commercial real estate portfolio risk, workouts, receiverships and assignments for the benefit of creditors.
View the MBA programPast program
Lending and Workout Issues for Agribusiness Loans
Matthew Bialick Minnesota Bankers Association
A lender-focused session on assessing agribusiness credit, documenting loans and renewals, and addressing troubled relationships through workouts or liquidation.
View the organizer’s program listingPast program · CCO Network
Successfully Navigating SBA Repairs and Guaranty Denials
Matthew Bialick BankIn Minnesota
A presentation for banking professionals on SBA loan-guaranty repairs and denials, including lender practices that may put a guaranty at risk.
Past program · National CLE
Structuring Farm and Agribusiness Loans: Key Terms, Mitigating Risks, and Role of the Farm Credit System and USDA
Matthew Bialick Strafford
Matthew Bialick served as a presenter in this national continuing legal education program on farm and agribusiness financing. His portion addressed agricultural litigation, including farm litigation and workouts involving agribusiness and agricultural finance.
View the publisher’s course listingOrganizer links provide the original program details. They do not necessarily include a publicly available recording.
Media & recurring programs
Podcast and video
MBA Banking Buzz: Grain Fronting
Matthew Bialick with Joe Witt Minnesota Bankers Association
Matthew joined Joe Witt on MBA Banking Buzz to discuss grain fronting, its implications for secured agricultural lenders and ways to detect the arrangements. The Minnesota Bankers Association published the episode on April 23, 2024.
Recurring program
Successfully Renewing Agricultural Loans
Matthew Bialick Minnesota Bankers Association
A recurring Minnesota Bankers Association presentation on renewing agricultural credits: the documentation, collateral and disclosure issues that surface at renewal, and how to structure a renewal to reduce the lender’s risk.
MBA’s organizer records also identify Matthew as the presenter for its agricultural loan documentation and renewal programs on September 24, 2024, and September 21, 2023.
View the MBA catalogue entry for the recorded renewal programAnnual agricultural conference
Lender Liability Issues for Ag Banks: How Far is Too Far
Matthew Bialick BankIn Minnesota
Presented at BankIn Minnesota’s annual agricultural conference. The session addressed how lender liability becomes a concern whenever a bank takes action to control, or even closely advise on, a borrower’s operation, and where the line lies.
Visit BankIn MinnesotaDates are shown where the organizer’s record supplies them. Recordings, where they exist, are subject to the organizer’s membership and availability rules.
Earlier Minnesota CLE presentations
Past program
Successfully Navigating the Farmer Lender Mediation Process
Matthew Bialick Minnesota Continuing Legal Education
A continuing legal education program guiding attorneys through farmer-lender mediation, from the initial notices through completion of mediation and commencement of litigation.
View the Minnesota CLE program listingPast program
Fraud and voidable transfers
Matthew Bialick Minnesota Continuing Legal Education
Matthew presented on fraud and voidable transfers at Minnesota Continuing Legal Education’s Effective Civil Litigator program.
Selected past topics
The following topics and engagements are historical. Older materials may no longer reflect current law or market conditions.
- Successfully Managing Troubled Livestock Credits. Matthew Bialick; Minnesota Bankers Association catalogue.
- Successfully Navigating Through Farmer Bankruptcies. Matthew Bialick; Minnesota Bankers Association catalogue.
- Properly Servicing and Liquidating Distressed FSA Guaranteed Loans. Matthew Bialick; Minnesota Bankers Association catalogue.
- Properly Renewing Ag Loans in a Troubled Economy. Matthew Bialick; Minnesota Bankers Association catalogue.
- Actions Your Ag Bank Can Take Today to Protect Itself in a Troubled Economy. Matthew Bialick; historical Minnesota Bankers Association listing.
Past speaking engagements
- Essential Ag Toolbelt for Thriving in a Troubled Economy — Matthew Bialick, Minnesota Bankers Association, November 7, 2018.
- Understanding Garnishments & Levies — Matthew Bialick, Minnesota Bankers Association, November 13, 2018.
These events have concluded. For a broader record of educational work, see Matthew’s presentation archive and Karl’s publications and presentations.
Organizer catalogues
Properly Renewing Ag Loans in a Troubled Economy — Minnesota Bankers Association catalogue. Access to the recording is subject to the organizer’s membership and availability rules.
Farmer Lender Mediation Process — historical Minnesota Bankers Association listing. The organizer currently lists this product as unavailable for purchase.
Materials and speaking inquiries
Contact Matthew Bialick to ask about available program materials or an educational presentation on banking, agriculture or related legal and financial issues.