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| Allen Buckner Joins Farm Credit Bank of Texas | |
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AUSTIN, Texas - The Austin-based Farm Credit Bank of Texas (FCBT) recently hired Kenneth "Allen" Buckner as vice president and association relationship manager. Buckner is one of three relationship managers who will administer the direct-lending relationship and work as partners on new business development with 22 financing associations in the Tenth Farm Credit District. Buckner, a 22-year veteran of the Farm Credit System, came to the bank from Spartanburg, S.C., where he worked for Palmetto Farm Credit, ACA as manager of the commercial loan department. In that position, he oversaw a department that had direct loans up to $58 million and participated in loans as large as $350 million. Previously, he worked for Piedmont Farm Credit Services, Southeast Georgia Farm Credit Services and the Farm Credit Bank of Columbia, which is now AgFirst Farm Credit Bank. Buckner is from Mars Hill, N.C., where his family raised polled Herefords and grew corn and hay. He worked his way through college on a tobacco, cattle and hay farm, graduating with biology degree from Mars Hill College and an MBA from Clemson University. |
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