Specialized Solutions for Your Unique Needs
We work behind the scenes with customers across the U.S. and Canada to provide financial services and solve operational challenges.
Agribusiness
Our roots have been in agriculture since our founding in 1987. Many of our partners and employees grew up in agriculture, participating in 4-H and FFA as children. We’ve often worked with multiple generations of farm clients to ensure their continued success.
Services We Provide
- Accurate agriculture terminology and knowledge
- Farm taxation and tax planning services
- Cooperative accounting reporting and governance
- FSA knowledge and government incentive maximization
Our Agribusiness Clients Include
- Farm structures (corporations, partnerships and sole proprietors)
- Producers with 20,000+ acres
- Livestock production (cattle, hogs, turkey, and dairy)
- Crop production (small grain, corn, soybeans and sugar beets)
- Grain elevators and crop input specialists
- Supply Cooperatives
- Commodity processing (soybean crushing, sugar slicing, alfalfa pelletizing, seed production, and grain processing)
Manufacturing
We know the challenges manufacturing, distribution, and logistics businesses face. Christianson improves our clients’ operational efficiency, increases financial performance, and lets clients focus on what they do best.
Services We Provide
- Industry-specific experience in terminology, taxation, and tax planning
- Inventory costing and analysis
- Hedging and derivatives knowledge
- Mergers and acquisitions services
- Entity analysis
Our Manufacturing Clients Include
- Equipment manufacturing
- Biofuels manufacturing
- Food processing
- Alcohol manufacturing
Renewable Energy
We’ve been part of the bioeconomy since day one. We consulted with some of the first farmers to invest in ethanol. With clients throughout the United States and Canada, we assist with state and federal tax credit opportunities. We are often consulted or provide suggestions for improvements as governing bodies develop or modify programs.
Services We Provide
- RFS RIN attest
- RFS Quality Assurance Provider
- LCFS Verification Provider
- Industry-specific terminology, taxation, and tax planning
- Renewable energy tax credits
- Equity and debt strategy
- Strategic planning
- Project development
- Merger & acquisition analysis
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Business process consulting
- Enhancements for small producer ethanol credit
- Analysis of processing plants
Our Renewable Energy Clients Include
- Ethanol Processing Plants
- Fuel Retailers
- Farmers
- Stakeholders involved in biomass, biodiesel, renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, biomass, algae, biogas, biomass pelleting, cellulosic development, anaerobic digestion
- Wind energy
- Entities of all shapes and sizes (LLCs, co-ops, corporate, partnerships)
Construction
While you build the community, we help build your business. We help our clients with our full spectrum of services for the lifecycle of crucial projects, as well as providing ongoing services.
Services We Provide
- Construction terminology and knowledge
- Experience in entity structures, construction taxation and planning
- Depreciation methods and lives
- Affirmative or preferential wage payments
- Time keeping analysis
- Costing analysis and valuation
- Project management
Our Construction Clients Include
- The trades (electricians, plumbing/heating/AC, sheetrock installers)
- Contractors
- Concrete/masonry
- Residential and commercial construction
- Road construction, asphalt, aggregate
Industrial Hemp
We assist farmer groups and non-farmer groups alike interested in starting an industrial hemp operation to process fiber and hurd for manufactures of hemp products, such hempcrete and biopolymers for textiles and other use markets. We also help groups interested in building a vertically-integrated industrial hemp processing business.
Services We Provide
- Feasibility Services – we create custom feasibility studies to determine the market, technical, and financial attractiveness of your business
- Business and Market Planning Services – creation of business and marketing plans that lenders and investors will understand and accept
- Business and Project Development Services – Our team leverages market insights, research expertise and project data to save you time and money.
- Funding Services – We find and apply for potential local, state, or Federal grants and/or loan guarantees with an 85% success rate.
Our Industrial Hemp Clients Include
- 26,000+ acre industrial hemp farming and fiber processing facility
- 200 acre and 24,000 kilogram per year CBD extraction plant
- 300 acre industrial hemp facility to manufacture hempcrete
Health Care
Regulations, taxation, and political changes are just some of the ongoing challenges the health care industry faces. We help you stay on top of them, so you can focus on what you do best.
Services We Provide
- Industry-specific terminology, knowledge, taxation, and tax planning
- Waivered services – CAC, CADI, DD, TBI
- ICF-MR
Our Health Care Clients Include
- Home care providers (assisted living, foster care, residential care and supported living)
- PCA service providers
- Clinics
- Medical supply companies
- Crisis caregivers
