Farm Credit Corporation

It was established in 1959, under the Farm Credit Act[?]. It succeeded the Canadian Farm Loan Board[?], which had been in operation since 1929. This organization's purpose is to enhance rural Canada[?] by providing specialized and personalized financial services to farming operations, including [family farms]]. It is also organized to provide funding to small or medium-sized business that are closely related or dependent on farming.

The FCC is one of Canada's many Crown Corporations[?]; they report to Parliament through the Minister of Agriculture[?]. The corporation's board consists of up to 12 members, all appointed choices that succomb to the approval of the governor-in-council. This control board regularly meets in the corporation's head office, which is located in Regina, Saskatchewan. There are currently 760 employees that serve clients from six regional offices and 101 field and district offices across the country.

On April 2nd, 1993, the government passed the Farm Credit Corporation Act[?]. Now the organization can finance on-farm diversification projects and value-added agricultural operations beyond the "farm gate".

The are now in a position that they can fund and deliver joint programs and services with federal agencies[?], provincial governments[?] and other term lenders. The corporation may borrow from the Consolidated Revenue Fund[?], or even raise funds in private money markets.

The product portfolio for the Farm Credit Corporation includes a variety of intermediate and long-term loans, with ammortization periods[?] as long as 29 years. The corporation has a loan portfolio of some 55,000 accounts, with an estimated value of around $3.3 billion.