Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Farm Credit Fellows - NYC Trip

The annual Farm Credit Fellows trip to New York City took place on Jan. 25-27. A total of 21 students from UVM, Cornell University and the University of Maine participated:

Kelly Langmaid, a loan officer from Yankee's Newport office, also went on the trip. Kelly is responsible for coordinating aspects of the Fellows Program (see this post). She reported that: "Wall Street is a different place now compared to what it was just 4 years ago when I attended the trip as a student!"

The group toured the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York Mercantile Exchange and Museum of American Finance. They visited with executives from Rabobank and the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation. The Funding Corporation is the entity within the Farm Credit System that sells System debt through a group of dealers on Wall Street. The group also visited Ground Zero and Times Square.

Several Fellows on the NYC trip spent a week in Yankee branch offices last year: Andrew Birch, Coral Kent-Dennis, Asa Manning, Andrew Wood and Daniel Lyons.

Leading the UVM students were Professors Charles Ferreira and Marian Fritz.