{"id":5471,"date":"2025-02-03T16:39:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T23:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/?page_id=5471"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:31:22","slug":"2025-speaker-acacia-accord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/2025-speaker-acacia-accord\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Speaker_Acacia Acord"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Acacia Acord <\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    We asked each one of our presenters a series of questions <\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Below are Ms. Acord’s answers:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    Q. What is the highlight of your career?<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Lending an understanding ear and advice to ranchers, whether just starting out or well established.\u00a0 It takes one to know one and being a rancher myself puts me in the trenches along with my customers.\u00a0 I not only understand the ups and downs, but I live them along with my customers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    Tough cattle prices, fire, drought, floods can all have a huge impact on my customers.\u00a0 Other problems are land prices and interest rates.\u00a0 All but floods have been a problem in recent years.\u00a0 For both land and cattle, it\u2019s been a great few years to sell but if someone is looking to buy in on land or cattle, the prices and interest rates are prohibitive.<\/p>

    Personally, being a women in agriculture still has it\u2019s roadblocks or detours.\u00a0 I have some older male customers that do not want to work with a woman, but their sons do not have that same issue.\u00a0 It is a fading problem, thankfully, but still one I have run across.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    Q. How did you get to this career?<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    In college I started banking as a part time teller since they were very flexible with my school schedule.\u00a0 At that same bank I took a second position as a night auditor, a position that processes all the transaction from that day.\u00a0 When I was about to graduate with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Agriculture Business, the economy took a nose dive.\u00a0 I added an extra year to my college career and received a second bachelor\u2019s degree, this time in Accounting.\u00a0 Those two degrees helped me into a job as an internal bank auditor for two and a half years.\u00a0 Moving back to my hometown had me reverse a bit in order to get a job and I moved into a teller position.\u00a0 Within six weeks I had become a credit analyst for my region, then for the entire state under that bank.\u00a0 I switched banks in April 2020 and here I am!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    Q. What is something unique about your career most people might not know or understand about what you do?<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Being an ag banker means working on ag hours.\u00a0 I have customers call at 6am, before they go outside and late in the evening, when they\u2019re in for the day.\u00a0 It\u2019s being exhausted during calving season but still being there for my customers who are just as tired.\u00a0 Living the same life as them, with an added layer of being the banker.\u00a0 It\u2019s also turning people down sometimes because I don\u2019t want to be the one to have to come get their cows or foreclose on their ranch.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    No degree is REQUIRED as most of the technical aspects can be taught on the job but an agriculture business and\/or accounting degree is a huge plus.\u00a0 The most important factor in my job is your ability to communicate and talk to people.\u00a0 That\u2019s a skill that can get you into almost any profession and be successful. \u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    2025 Presenter Back to speaker page Acacia Acord Vice President\/Agriculture & Commercial Loan Officer\/Social Media Director First National Bank of Gillette (307) 660-5265 acacia.acord@gmail.com We asked each one of our presenters a series of questions Below are Ms. Acord’s answers: Q. What is the highlight of your career? Answer: Lending an understanding ear and advice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6098,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions\/6098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}