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AgCountry Farm Credit Services is proud to announce that it has awarded the benefit fund of McKenzie Health $25,000 as a recipient of the Rural Community Grant Fund (RCGF). The grant funds will go towards purchasing mammography equipment. Lynn Welker-Fevold, Benefit Fund of McKenzie Health, is pleased to accept the check and utilize the grant funds towards the purchase. "AgCountry Farm Credit Services is proud to present grant funds that will go towards purchasing Contrast Enhanced Mammography (...
Nearly 100 years after the U.S. Congress established Farm Credit www.farmcredit.com to serve as a reliable source of credit for the nation’s farmers and ranchers, Farm Credit Services of North Dakota and the entire Farm Credit System remain a sound and vital financial resource for rural America. Today marks the cooperatives networks’ 98th anniversary. “For 98 years, the Farm Credit System has served agriculture and rural America as a dedicated, reliable, competitive, customer-owned source of credit,” said Claude Sem, CEO. “Americ...
Nearly 100 years after the U.S. Congress established Farm Credit www.farmcredit.com to serve as a reliable source of credit for the nation’s farmers and ranchers, Farm Credit Services of North Dakota and the entire Farm Credit System remain a sound and vital financial resource for rural America. Today marks the cooperatives networks’ 98th anniversary. “For 98 years, the Farm Credit System has served agriculture and rural America as a dedicated, reliable, competitive, customer-owned source of credit,” said Claude Sem, CEO. “Americ...
Three Farm Credit organizations are continuing their support for western North Dakota communities impacted by oil and mineral exploration and production. Today the groups announced $300,000 in grants for projects under the Rural Community Grant Fund. The latest awards focus primarily on rural fire departments and support for area first responders. This includes funds for new fire trucks for rural fire departments in Crosby and Mohall and a tanker upgrade in Burlington – helping to replace three aging vehicles. It also includes new protective g...
Western North Dakota communities received $273,096 in grants from Farm Credit, including 11 grants for worthy projects to support communities impacted by oil and mineral exploration and production. “We are very grateful to Farm Credit for helping us to build a new safe house in Minot,” said Shelly Bohl, grants coordinator for the Domestic Violence Crisis Center, located in Farm Credit Services of North Dakota’s territory. “We are the only agency within 100 miles that provides emergency shelter to victims of domestic violence. The new, larger...
Western North Dakota communities received $170,650 in grants from Farm Credit, including five grants for worthy community projects to support cities and towns impacted by oil and mineral exploration and production. “North Dakota is now the second largest oil producing state in the United States, bringing both opportunity and challenges to the towns and cities in western North Dakota. These grants represent our commitment to investing in the needs of these communities through the Rural Community Grant Fund,” said Bill York, CEO of AgriBank. Agr...
Western North Dakota communities received $170,650 in grants from Farm Credit, including five grants for worthy community projects to support cities and towns impacted by oil and mineral exploration and production. “North Dakota is now the second-largest oil-producing state in the United States, bringing both opportunity and challenges to the towns and cities in western North Dakota. These grants represent our commitment to investing in the needs of these communities through the Rural Community Grant Fund,” said Bill York, CEO of AgriBank. “Th...
The independent Farm Credit Services associations headquartered in Fargo, Mandan and Minot, with branch offices in various locations throughout ND and MN, will award 32 scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each to high school seniors who plan to enroll in college next fall. Recipients must be from an actively farming and/or ranching family, or be planning to pursue a career in farming or some other aspect of agriculture. Eligible applicants include those who reside in any North Dakota county or in the Minnesota counties of Becker, Beltrami,...
In 2012, Farm Credit Services of ND sponsored a wide variety of activities in the local communities we serve. As part of our ongoing commitment to these communities we contributed over $120,000 in sponsorships to various organizations, programs and events in our business territory. “We take pride in participating in local community events and working closely with the people whose efforts make their communities so successful,” says Claude Sem, CEO. “Our Pat-NOW program keeps interest rates low for our customers which in turn provides them with...
Stockholders of Farm Credit Services of North Dakota, ACA elected two directors at their annual meeting which was held at the Holiday Inn in Minot on Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Both Bill Ongstad, Harvey, ND and Steven Perdue, Ray, ND were re-elected to four-year terms. Stockholders also re-elected Lana Anderson – Sherwood, Diane Scheflo – Bottineau, Barry Scheresky – Des Lacs, Dean Schoenberg – Mohall, and newly elected Mark Birdsall – Berthold, for one-year terms on the nominating committee. “FCS had a record year in many aspects of our busines...
Three Farm Credit organizations, Farm Credit Services of Mandan, Farm Credit Services of ND in Minot, and Ag Country Farm Credit Services in Fargo presented a check for $25,000 to North Dakota 4H Foundation Development Directors, Mylie Lavold and Duane Hauck. “We are proud to support annual 4-H programs throughout our territory every year, but this special request to help provide youth with a quality educational experience at their 4-H camp was well deserving of additional funding,” said Claude Sem, CEO, Farm Credit Services of North Dak...
