Launching our Land Loan Products!
Akiptan plans to meet more capital needs for Native ag producers. Akiptan is thrilled to announce our two new loan products designed to...
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Oct 21, 20211 min read
Increased Access to Capital
Akiptan raises loan limit to $250,000. Akiptan is excited to announce that we have raised the maximum amount of our loans from $100,000...
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Sep 10, 20213 min read
Strength Through Sustainability
Melinda Williamson improves health of community members and local economy with fermented tea. In 2010, while working at Oklahoma State...
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Aug 18, 20212 min read
Growing Our Best Ideas
Grant award will support transformational ag lending models. This spring, Akiptan was awarded a Community Innovation Grant from the Bush...
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Aug 10, 20212 min read
Skya’s Story: Telling the Native Ag Story
A message from our Executive Director. Over the last couple of months, I have had the opportunity to raise awareness of our work, the...
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Jul 20, 20211 min read
Disaster Assistance for Producers Impacted by Drought
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is providing technical and financial assistance for drought recovery. Livestock Forage Disaster...
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Jul 6, 20211 min read
We've expanded our team to meet the growing demand for our programs!
We're glad to be growing our team and the services we offer across Indian Country. Let's welcome our newest staff members - Kristi...
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Jun 22, 20212 min read
Continuing a Family Tradition
Cheyenne Weston rejoins four-generations of cattle producers. After getting her degree and working in Rapid City for several years,...
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May 10, 20212 min read
Starting on a Path of His Own
Bradyn Ward begins building his herd and his future. It’s 3:00pm, and Bradyn Ward (Cheyenne River Sioux) is getting off work at his...
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Feb 22, 20211 min read
Akiptan Welcomes Tomie Peterson to the Board
The news broke last week about Zach Ducheneaux's new appointment as the USDA's Administrator of the Farm Service Agency. Zach was...
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Jan 4, 20212 min read
Looking Forward to 2021
January 4th, 2021 Greetings! I hope this letter finds you well and that you had a safe, healthy and happy holiday season! As we have now...
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Oct 5, 20201 min read
Implementation of ProAg
Akiptan is happy to announce the implementation of ProAg’s software. This program allows clients to create their own account on our...
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Sep 23, 20202 min read
Perseverance & Resilience in Agriculture
Growing up I always heard: “Maybe next year’s prices will be better, maybe next year the weather will be better, maybe next year we can...
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Jul 21, 20201 min read
Another Milestone
Recently, Akiptan has received some exciting news and we are happy to share this with you all. Akiptan is now a Certified Native CDFI....
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Jan 6, 20202 min read
Year One Behind Us...
\We have officially hit our one year anniversary of being open for business. What a great year it has been!
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Jan 6, 20202 min read
Lee McLean: The Transportation Side of Agriculture
Lee McLean resides on the Colville Reservation in Washington state on his family’s ranch. He has been brought up around agriculture and...
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Oct 7, 20193 min read
The Long and Short of What we Do
Akiptan is the Lakota word for “working together, in a cooperative effort.” At Akiptan we are always asked about what we do and how we do...
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Sep 19, 20191 min read
Our Growing Staff
Things have been very busy here at Akiptan the last month and we've been making some big changes. Our biggest news is that we hired our...
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Aug 6, 20192 min read
Sakari Farms: Value-Added Ag in Indian Country
A huge part of agriculture is the production side, but an equally important part is the value added process as well. This success story...
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Jul 30, 20192 min read
Tayla Thorstenson: A Young Lady's Road to Success.
To kick off our first ever success story, I think it’s important to talk about Akiptan’s first loan to a young lady who inspired the idea...
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