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For Immediate Release
November 5, 2007

AUSTIN, Texas —Fifteen young Farm Credit borrowers recently traveled to Washington, D.C., Newark, N.J., and New York City as part of the Farm Credit Young Leaders Program, a week-long event sponsored by the Tenth District Farm Credit Council.

The Young Leaders Program is designed to give young Farm Credit stockholders an overview of the Farm Credit System and an opportunity to interact with System leaders and decision-makers in Washington, D.C. Each lending co-op in the district was invited to select a participant for the program.

“We put this program together to help support our young stockholders and the important role they play in the agriculture industry and their rural communities,” said Jimmy Dodson, chairman of the Tenth District Farm Credit Council. “We hope this event not only expressed our appreciation to them, but also gave them an inside look at the Farm Credit System, how their loans are funded and how their voices can be heard in Washington.”

The trip included meetings with officials of the Farm Credit Council and congressional leaders in Washington, D.C. The group also traveled to Newark, N.J., for a briefing at the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation and spent an afternoon in New York City touring the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Following are the 15 participants and the Farm Credit cooperatives that nominated them.

• Rob Bass, Plainview, Texas, Great Plains Ag Credit
• Allen Eubanks, Lucedale, Miss., Land Bank South
• Mike Gant, Merigold, Miss., Land Bank of North Mississippi
• Greg Graham, Weatherford, Texas, AgTexas, FCS
• Eric Hebert, Opelousas, La., Louisiana Land Bank
• Kevin Huffman, McGregor, Texas, Capital Farm Credit
• Henry John Langford, Lometa, Texas, Texas Land Bank
• Reece Langley, Alexandria, Va., FLBA of North Alabama
• Reagan Moseley, Early, Texas, Central Texas Farm Credit
• Shane Phifer, Paris, Texas, Lone Star Ag Credit
• Chad Pond, Troup, Texas, Heritage Land Bank
• Gray Skipper, Grove Hill, Ala., FLBA of South Alabama
• Mark Stansell, Fluvanna, Texas, First Ag Credit
• Dusty Swanberg, Lyford, Texas, AgCredit of South Texas
• Lee Whitaker, Claude, Texas, Panhandle-Plains Land Bank

The Tenth District Farm Credit Council is the trade association of the Tenth Farm Credit District and represents the district’s legislative and regulatory interests.