Financial Partner Magazine

Earlier this year, Farm Credit East was pleased to join with Yankee Farm Credit. In this issue’s cover story, meet some of the new faces from the Northern Region, including several agriculture and forestry operations in Vermont, as well as a few of our new teammates. Also in this issue, we feature this year’s 38 scholarship recipients aspiring to careers in agriculture, commercial fishing, forest products or related fields. 

In our last Financial Partner, we introduced Farm Credit East’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy. As a customer-owned cooperative, ESG is an increasing priority for Farm Credit East, and the governance pillar is one often overlooked when discussing ESG, however it is the one most customer focused. Governance defines how corporate decisions are made and how rights and responsibilities are distributed to interested parties, including the board of directors, management and shareholders.

ESG, or Environmental, Social, Governance, is an area of increasing focus for investors, policymakers and other stakeholders. Whether it’s serving customers and the industries in which they operate or contributing to the communities where Farm Credit East customers and staff live, Farm Credit East’s role as steward is one it takes seriously. In this issue’s cover story, learn more about Farm Credit East’s ESG story, including a few programs and initiatives the cooperative has supported in recent years to ensure the vitality of the Farm Credit East team, customers and the communities where our team lives and works.