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I love the fall! Maybe it’s the harvest season or maybe its football, but in either case we’re finding out how the preparation and work will be rewarded. To use the football analogy, our Association is into our 4th quarter of a year with tremendous volatility and challenge. Because we have some customers that have really been challenged this past year, our Association results through 3rd quarter 2009 have been stressed.
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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>>