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| '''AgFirst''', part of the US [[Farm Credit System]], serves as a [[Wholesale banking|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]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS21278.pdf|title=Farm Credit System|last=Monke|first=Jim|date=May 17, 2016|publisher=[[Congressional Research Service]]}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://apps.fca.gov/FCSPublicDirectory/PubViewInst.aspx?u=620000|title=View FCS Institution Directory: AgFirst Farm Credit Bank|publisher=[[Farm Credit Administration]]|access-date=2016-09-25}}</ref> It was formed in 1995 by the merger of the Farm Credit Bank of Baltimore and the Farm Credit Bank of Columbia.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1995/02/02/farm-credit-bank-merger-gets-shareholders-ok/|title=Farm Credit Bank merger gets shareholders' OK|last=Shelsby|first=Ted|date=February 2, 1995|work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|access-date=2016-09-25}}</ref> The lender is cooperatively owned by 16 local associations.<ref name="FCA">{{cite web |title=View Institutions by District |url=https://apps.fca.gov/FCSPublicDirectory/PubViewInstitutionsBySysDist.aspx |website=FCA |access-date=August 3, 2023}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=House Committee on Agriculture |first=United States Congress |title=Formulation of the 2002 Farm Bill: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Its Subcommittees, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, May, June, July, 2001 |date=2001 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |isbn=978-0-16-066027-6 |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=310 |language=en}}</ref>
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| AgFirst is headquartered in [[Columbia, South Carolina]] in the former [[Bank of America]] Plaza.<ref>{{Cite book |last=FCA |title=Annual Report on the Financial Condition and Performance of the Farm Credit System |publisher=The Administration |year=1995 |pages=26 |language=en}}</ref>
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| ==References==
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| == External links ==
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| * {{Official website|http://www.agfirst.com/}}
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| * [http://www.hoovers.com/agfirst-farm-credit-bank/--ID__54766--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml Hoovers Report on Agfirst]
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| * [https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/farm-credit-administration Farm Credit Administration] in the [[Federal Register]]
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| [[Category:Farm Credit System]]
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| [[Category:Cooperatives based in South Carolina]]
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