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Summer Interns 2024

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Recapping the Summer Internship Experience

Written by Nina Flanigan (marketing intern) This summer, three eager college students were selected to participate in the Farm Credit of the Virginias (FCV) annual summer internship program. The...
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Employee Spotlights

Employee Spotlight: Jessica Buckbee

Job Title: Loan Officer Location: Ripley Branch Tenure: 5 years Briefly describe your involvement in agriculture. My family’s tobacco and cattle farm stopped with my grandpa. However, I remember going...
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Employee Spotlights

Employee Spotlight: Susanne Mahmoodian

Job Title: Business Relationship Specialist Location: Verona Branch Tenure: 2 years What's your favorite family recipe? My grandmother's recipe for chicken and dumplings is my favorite family recipe...
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Meet Your Farmers, Grow Your Community at Your Local Farmers Market

Shopping at the farmers market has a ton of great benefits for customers including getting outside and having access to the delicious food being grown and raised right in your community. However...
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Farm Credit Memorial Scholarship

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2023 Recipients of the FCV Memorial Scholarship at Virginia Tech

In 2022, Farm Credit of the Virginias (FCV) conceived a scholarship program with the goal of supporting students enrolled in Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, while paying...
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Agricultural Advocacy

Young, Beginning, Small & Veteran Farmers

Bridging the Disconnect Through Advocacy with Morgan Slaven

Farm Credit is known for building relationships with our customer-owners; however, our mission and commitment to the rural communities we serve extend our borrower relations. The Farm Credit System...
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VALOR Class VI in DC

Agricultural Advocacy

Recapping the VALOR Experience with Adam McKenery

By Adam McKenery, Chief Audit Officer While sitting in a conference room in 2022, my former manager and chief audit officer, Dewey Brown, slid his phone over to me and asked, “Is this something you...
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Charitable Contributions Fund

CCF Recipient Feature: Fauquier Education Farm

The Fauquier Education Farm (FEF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational farm based in Warrenton, Virginia. Their mission is to advance agriculture and agriculture-related education through best-method...
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Employee Spotlights

Employee Spotlight: Kelli Hopkins

Job Title: Business Relationship Specialist Location: Rocky Mount Branch Tenure: 10 years What's your favorite family recipe? My favorite family recipe is my Aunt Geraldine’s pound cake. It’s the best...
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Employee Spotlights

Employee Spotlight: Magen Ayers

Job Title: Loan Operations Supervisor Location: Wytheville Branch Tenure: 10 years Briefly describe your involvement in agriculture. I grew up on a family farm in Grayson County, Virginia, which had...
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Tick-borne Diseases: A Threat to Livestock

With over 900 species of ticks in the world (Horak et al., 2002) it is no surprise that tick borne diseases have become a significant health concern for humans and livestock alike. Ticks are...
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West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition

Charitable Contributions Fund

CCF Recipient Feature: West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition

The West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition (WVFFC) leveraged a Charitable Contributions Fund grant from Farm Credit of the Virginias to transform the educational landscape for students in Pocahontas...
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Customer Feature Stories

Young, Beginning, Small & Veteran Farmers

Customer Feature: Aaron & Tara Helmick (Anathoth Livestock)

Aaron and Tara Helmick run a diversified livestock operation with their four young children called Anathoth Livestock LLC in the beautiful Hans Creek Valley of West Virginia. Both Aaron and Tara have...
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Wyndale Farms

Customer Feature Stories

Young, Beginning, Small & Veteran Farmers

Customer Feature: Scott & Rebecca Ramsey (Wyndale Gardens)

Scott and Rebecca (Becky) Ramsey identified a need in their community and combined that need with their joint passion for science and healthy food systems to create Wyndale Gardens, an aquaponics...
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Customer Feature Stories

Customer Feature: Wesley Kent (Winding River Farms)

How often do you hear of a single lecture in a college class changing the course of a student's life and career? Well, that was the case for Augusta County dairy farmer, Wesley (Wes) Kent. During Wes...
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