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Dairy Revenue Protection-Upcoming Deadline
Producers can sign up for the program at any time, but June 30 is the deadline to transfer your policy if you have one in place.
2024 Farm Credit East Sustainability Report
2024 Sustainability Report
Read the recently released Farm Credit East 2024 Sustainability Report.
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It Pays to be a Customer-Owner
Farm Credit East customer owners earned a combined $140 million in patronage based on 2024 earnings.

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Press Releases
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 Announces Record Distribution of Patronage Dividends

Farm Credit East, ACA, the Northeast’s largest agricultural lending cooperative, announced its distribution of $120 million in cash patronage dividends to 12,500 farm, fishing and forestry business owners and operators across the Northeast. In addition, the board approved a special one-time patronage distribution based on 2023’s outstanding financial results, for a total of $130 million of earnings returned to customer-owners. 

February 20, 2024

Farm Credit
Farm Credit East Offices Closed February 19

Farm Credit East offices will be closed on Monday, February 19, in observance of Presidents' Day

February 14, 2024

Press Releases
Apply for a Farm Credit East Higher Education Scholarship by March 15

Farm Credit East, a member-owned lending and financial services cooperative, is currently accepting scholarship applications from high school seniors and college students with career aspirations in agriculture, commercial fishing and the forest products industries from across the association’s eight-state territory. Applications are due by March 15.

 

 

February 12, 2024

Crop Insurance
Reminder: Spring Crop Sales Closing

The deadline to insure spring crops in the northeast for the 2024 crop year is March 15, 2024. Insurable spring crops include field and vegetable crops such as corn, soybeans, barley, oats, fresh market sweet corn, cabbage, processing beans, processing sweet corn, dry beans, green peas, fresh market beans, tomatoes, tobacco and potatoes.

February 06, 2024

Media Inquiries

Contact Kristie Matuszewski
Director of Marketing & Communications

Telephone:800.562.2235
Email: Kristie.Matuszewski@FarmCreditEast.com