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Key people | Leon (Tim) Amerson, CEO |
$417 million (2020) | |
Total assets | $36.3 billion (2020) |
Total equity | $2.47 billion (2020) |
Website | www |
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]