Change in Competitors

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Change in Competitors
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Changes at FCA
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Changes in Congress and the Political Environment
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Red and Blue America -- 2004
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108th Congress -- Second Session
Repubs Dems Indep Senate
51 48 1 House
228 205 1 109th Congress --
First Session Repubs Dems
Indep Senate 55 44
1 House 232 201
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House Agriculture Committee 2002 Farm Bill
Only 21 of 51 Members Still on Committee
Larry Combest, TX John Boehner, OH Bob Goodlatte,
VA Richard Pombo, CA Nick Smith, MI Terry
Everett, AL Frank Lucas, OK Saxby Chambliss,
GA Jerry Moran, KS Bob Schaffer, CO John Thune,
SD William Jenkins, TN John Cooksey, LA Gil
Gutknecht, WI Bob Riley, AL
Charles Stenholm, TX Gary Condit, CA Collin
Peterson, MN Calvin Dooley, CA Eva Clayton,
NC Earl Hilliard, AL Tim Holden, PA Sanford
Bishop, GA Bennie Thompson, MS John Baldacci,
ME Marion Berry, AR Mike McIntyre,, NC Bob
Etheridge, NC Leonard Boswell, IA David Phelps, IL
Michael Simpson, ID Doug Ose, CA Robin Hayes,
NC Charles Pickering, MS Tim Johnson, IL Tom
Osborne, NE Mike Pence, IN Dennis Rehberg, MT Sam
Graves, MO Adam Putnam, FL Mark Kennedy,
MN George Gekas, PA
Ken Lucas, KY Mike Thompson, CA Baron Hill,
IN Joe Baca, CA Rick Larsen, WA Mike Ross,
AR Anibal Acevedo-Villa, PR Ron Kind, WI Ronnie
Shows, MS
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• Congressional Quarterly Analysis
• Of the 435 Congressional Districts -- 61 meet
  the definition of being rural --- Most of its
  population live outside metro area and also
  outside any metro area with 25,000 or more
  people.
• Trends working against rural influence in
  Congress -- Rural population peaked in 1920 --
  Share of population living outside metro areas
  fell from 66 in 1920 to 20 in 2000.
• There are only 4 Congressional that have
  nothing to do with a metro area -- one each in
  KS, KY, NE and MO.
• There are 220 districts in which majority of
  people are suburban

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Preamble to the Farm Credit Act
It is declared to be the policy of the Congress,
recognizing that a prosperous, productive
agriculture is essential to a free nation and
recognizing the growing need for credit in rural
areas, that the farmer-owned cooperative Farm
Credit System be designed to accomplish the
objective of improving the income and well-being
of American farmers and ranchers by furnishing
sound, adequate, and constructive credit and
closely related services to them, their
cooperatives, and to selected farm-related
businesses necessary for efficient farm
operations. (b) It is the objective of this Act
to continue to encourage farmer- and
rancher-borrowers participation in the
management, control, and ownership of a permanent
system of credit for agriculture which will be
responsive to the credit needs of all types of
agricultural producers having a basis for credit
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Advancing Our Commitment to Agriculture and
Rural America
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Customer owners
Ag Related Businesses
Advancing Farm Credits Commitment to Agriculture
and Rural America
Ag and Rural partners
Rural infrastructure
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