AgFirst

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AgFirst Farm Credit Bank
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Headquarters
Key people
Leon (Tim) Amerson, CEO
Increase2.svg $417 million (2020)
Total assets Increase2.svg $36.3 billion (2020)
Total equity Increase2.svg $2.47 billion (2020)
Website www.agfirst.com

AgFirst, part of the US Farm Credit System, serves as a wholesale lender and business-service provider to a network of local farm credit associations in 15 southern and eastern states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. [1] [2] It was formed in 1995 by the merger of the Farm Credit Bank of Baltimore and the Farm Credit Bank of Columbia. [3] The lender is cooperatively owned by 16 local associations. [4] These associations, operating as Farm Credit and Ag Credit associations, provide real estate and production financing to about 80,000 farmers, agribusinesses, and rural homeowners. [5]

AgFirst is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina in the former Bank of America Plaza. [6]

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References

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  4. "View Institutions by District". FCA. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
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