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AgStart Youth enhances 4-H experience

By Mark Parker
Thanks to an innovative Frontier Farm Credit program, Reid Shipman has a clearer understanding that there’s more to a 4-H market steer project than scotch combs and feed buckets.

Managing dollars and cents, the 14-year old Manhattan, Kan., youth can now tell you, makes tomorrow’s blue ribbons possible—and paves the way for a lifetime of informed financial decisions.

Annie's Project reaches out to farm women

By Mark Parker

They call it Annie’s Project and its goal is to unleash a vast and under-utilized resource in American agriculture.

Named for a farm woman whose spirit and accomplishments inspire the endeavor, Annie’s Project provides women in agriculture with the knowledge they need to make an even bigger contribution on the nation’s farms and ranches.

AgStart Jump-Starts Young Farmers

by Mark Parker

Andrew and Emily Schrader were up against a cold hard fact that everyone in agriculture knows all about:

Getting a start in farming or ranching is a mighty tough row to hoe for a young person. Andrew had the skills, he had the desire and he had the commitment. What he and Emily lacked was the capital necessary for a traditional loan down payment.

And that’s where Frontier Farm Credit’s AgStart program offered a leg-up. “It’s a great program,” Andrew says. “Frankly, I don’t think we could have done it any other way. We save what we can, but it would have taken a long time to come up with the money for this particular opportunity and by that time, it would have been gone.” Continue Reading>>

Opportunity to Provide Leadership Awaits You

Voting stockholders with an interest in providing governance leadership to Frontier Farm Credit are encouraged to consider Director or Nominating Committee candidacy. This provides one with an opportunity to be more involved with the Frontier Farm Credit cooperative and to serve its members.

Later in 2009, the 2010 Nominating Committee will be seeking stockholders interested in being considered for Director and 2011 Nominating Committee positions. If you have an interest in one of these positions, please contact your local lending office or Ruth Compton, Corporate Secretary, at 877-744-7144, Ext. 2831. Or e-mail ruth.compton@frontierfarmcredit.com.

Annie's Project

Frontier Farm Credit in partership with K-State Research & Extension are offering Annie’s Project, a program designed for farm women. Sessions begin September 26, 2009.

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