Agricultural Lending Industry Competitors

From interested partner to sympathetic banker, Rabo AgriFinance (formerly Rabo AgServices) plays more roles for farmers than a one-man production of Oklahoma! Rabo AgriFinance provides farmers and ranchers with crop and livestock insurance, business and mortgage loans, and cash advances for rent, fuel, and irrigation....

Part of the federal Farm Credit System, the Farm Credit Bank of Texas provides loan funds and financial services to lending cooperatives in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas. The lending cooperatives include federal land credit associations, which offer real estate loans on farms, ranches, and other rural property, and agricultural credit associations, which provide agricultural production loans, agribusiness financing, and rural mortgage financing....

First Pioneer Farm Credit helps farmers explore the well chartered territory of financing. The financial cooperative is part of the national Farm Credit System founded in 1916 to serve the needs of American farmers. It offers mortgages, seasonal loans, lines of credit, equipment leasing, record keeping, tax planning and preparation, appraisals, business consulting, and multi-peril crop insurance to country homeowners and agricultural business owners....

Greenhouse farmers turn to member-owned cooperative GreenStone FARM CREDIT SERVICES for financial services. One of the country's largest associations in the Farm Credit System, GreenStone offers such products as short, intermediate, and long-term loans; equipment and building leases; appraisal services; and life and crop insurance to the agricultural industry....

Through its subsidiaries and affiliated companies, Knightswood provides financing to companies residing in the agricultural, oil and gas, commercial real estate, and personal financing sectors through the issuance of bonds to investors. Subsidiaries include Opus Cranberries Corporation, Ponderosa Ginseng Farms, and Qwest Energy....

Whether you grow pineapple in Hawaii, grow grapes in California, or run a dairy farm in Iowa, US AgBank is there to fund your farms. It's part of the borrower-owned Farm Credit System established by the US government in 1916 to provide funding and other financial services to America's farmers, ranchers, agribusinesses, agricultural cooperatives, and rural homeowners....

AgFirst puts farmers first. A large and growing agricultural lender, AgFirst Farm Credit Bank operates through more than 20 farmer-owned cooperatives in 15 eastern states and Puerto Rico. It offers more than $20 billion in loans to some 80,000 farmers, ranchers, rural homeowners, and agribusiness owners....

AgriBank puts the "green" in green acres. A financial intermediary, AgriBank provides wholesale lending and business services to Farm Credit System (FCS) associations in America's heartland. Established by Congress in 1916, the FCS is a nationwide network of cooperatives that provides loans and financial services for farmers, ranchers, agribusiness owners, timber producers, and rural homeowners....

When farmers grow -- whether it be corn, soybeans, or swine -- Agstar grows, too. One of the largest Farm Credit Associations in the nation, Agstar is a member-owned cooperative, run by farmers for farmers. Loans for grain, dairy, and swine account for nearly 60% of Agstar's loan and lease portfolio, which also consists of equipment and vehicle loans and leases, as well as rural home mortgages....

If Old McDonald's farm is in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, or Tennessee, he might have a loan-loan-here and a loan-loan-there from Farm Credit Services of Mid-America. The cooperative association, one of the largest in the National Farm Credit System, provides lending and other financial services to these states' farmers and rural homeowners....