Business Description

ORGANIZATION The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation ("Farmer Mac") is a stockholder-owned, federally chartered instrumentality of the United States established under Title VIII of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended (12 U.S.C. §§ 2279aa et seq.), which is sometimes referred to as Farmer Mac's Charter. Farmer Mac was originally created by the United States Congress to provide a secondary market for a variety of loans made to borrowers in rural America. This secondary market is designed to increase the accessibility of finance at stable interest rates to America's rural communities and to provide rural borrowers with the benefits of capital markets pricing and product innovation. Farmer Mac's secondary market activities include: • purchasing eligible loans directly from lenders, including participation interests, syndicated notes, revolving and non-revolving credit facilities, and unfunded loan commitments. "Eligible Loans" include obligations which are: secured by a first lien mortgage on real estate used in agricultural production or processing, including part-time farms and rural housing loans; agricultural and rural development loans guaranteed by the United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA"); and loans by lenders organized as cooperatives to finance electrification and telecommunications facilities, including broadband and middle mile broadband infrastructure, and renewable energy projects in rural areas; • guaranteeing and purchasing securities issued by lenders and other financial institutions that obtain funding by pledging pools of Eligible Loans that they retain (Farmer Mac refers to these securities as "AgVantage," one of our registered trademarks); • issuing and guaranteeing securities that represent interests in, or obligations secured by, pools of Eligible Loans that we purchase and transfer to trusts (together with AgVantage, Farmer Mac refers to these securities as "Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities," whi…