How is Farm Credit different from other lenders?
For nearly 100 years Farm Credit has been solely dedicated to helping farmers, ranchers and rural communities. Customers know they can depend on Farm Credit’s expertise and commitment in good times and bad. Our cooperative structure is important to customers because it means they have a say in how Farm Credit does business. Earnings are retained by Farm Credit banks and associations who often return a portion of these earnings in the form of patronage, to member-borrowers. The System’s size, structure and performance have earned it the worldwide support of investors who continue to finance U.S. agriculture and rural America by purchasing Systemwide Debt Securities.
