Farm Credit Fellows

It’s Farm Credit Fellow season once again! This year there are 26 students in the program from the University of Vermont, the University of Maine, the University of Connecticut and Cornell University. The program helps students learn about agricultural finance and Farm Credit.

The Farm Credit Fellows program begins in the spring of the junior year with a trip to the offices of Farm Credit East in Enfield, CT. The Fellows hear presentations from representatives of CoBank, Farm Credit Financial Partners, Inc. (FPI), the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation and Farm Credit East. Here are the students and advisors from UVM who attended this year's session on April 15-16:

In the summer between their junior and senior years, each Farm Credit Fellow spends a week-long internship in an office of one of the northeast Farm Credit associations. Four of the Fellows will be visiting Yankee Farm Credit:

Hannah Fay – St. Albans, May 3–7
Henry Pearl – Middlebury, May 24–27
Michael Fitzgerald – White River Junction, May 24–27
Virginia Purrier – Newport, May 24–27

Each participating university has an on-campus class or seminar related to agricultural finance in the fall of the senior year that completes the Farm Credit Fellows program (click here for Cornell University).

Kelly Langmaid, loan officer from the Newport office, is responsible for scheduling and follow-up for all Farm Credit Fellow internships. Kelly matches up the Fellows and their host offices, and she follows up with a survey after the internships. For more information about the Farm Credit Fellows program please e-mail Kelly.