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Article: Farm Credit System celebrates 90th.
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- Rural Cooperatives
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Rural America's customer-owned financial partner, the Farm Credit System, celebrated its 90th anniversary of service on July 17, the date when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Farm Loan Act in 1916. Today, with more than $106 billion in loans financing agriculture and its related cooperatives, rural homebuyers, small community infrastructure and the export of U.S. farm commodities, the Farm Credit System is the oldest and largest financial cooperative in the nation.
"For 90 years, the Farm Credit System has been rural America's customer-owned partner, and we look forward to a bright future for U.S. agriculture and America's rural communities," said ...