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It Pays to be a Customer-Owner

Farm Credit East customer owners earned a combined $145 million in cash patronage dividends. The 2026 patronage distribution marks the cooperative’s 30th consecutive annual patronage payment.

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Webinar: 2026 Green Industry Outlook

Join Farm Credit East, Horizon Farm Credit and Texas A&M's Dr. Charlie Hall on Feb. 23 at noon, for a review of the green industry's operational and financial performance in 2025 and an outlook for 2026.

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Farm Credit Awards Efforts to Develop and Promote Northeast Agriculture

The Farm Credit Northeast AgEnhancement Program, a joint effort of Farm Credit East and CoBank, recently provided $115,804 in grant funding to 18 organizations to assist their efforts to encourage youth leadership development, support young and beginning farmer initiatives, promote diversity, equity and inclusion, and advance northeast agriculture, forestry and commercial fishing.

February 19, 2026

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Farm Credit East Awards $88,000 in Higher Education Scholarships

Farm Credit East, the Northeast’s largest agricultural lender, recently awarded $88,000 in higher education scholarships to 40 student recipients. Farm Credit East’s scholarship program supports students with diverse career aspirations in agriculture, commercial fishing, forest products and related fields from across the association’s eight-state territory.

June 24, 2025

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Farm Credit Awards Efforts to Develop and Promote Northeast Agriculture

The Farm Credit Northeast AgEnhancement Program, a joint effort of Farm Credit East and CoBank, recently provided $115,000 in grant funding to 27 organizations to assist their efforts to encourage youth leadership development, support young and beginning farmer initiatives, promote diversity, equity and inclusion, and advance northeast agriculture, forestry and commercial fishing.

June 17, 2025

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Farm Credit East’s FarmStart Celebrates 400 Investments

Farm Credit’s FarmStart program is pleased to announce the approval of its 400th investment. Since the first investment approved in August 2006, FarmStart has invested more than $19.4 million with over 400 entrepreneurs throughout the northeast.

May 19, 2025

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Winners of Farm Credit East’s Lipinski Rural Initiatives Award Announced

Farm Credit East was pleased to recently award two winners of the Lipinski Rural Initiatives Award.

May 12, 2025