Business Description

Farmers & Merchants Bancorp, Inc. (Company) is a bank holding company incorporated under the laws of Ohio in 1985 and elected to become a financial holding company under the Federal Reserve in 2014. Our primary subsidiary, The Farmers & Merchants State Bank (Bank) is a local independent community bank that has been primarily serving Northwest Ohio, Northeast Indiana and Southeast Michigan since 1897. Our other subsidiary, Farmers & Merchants Risk Management (Captive) was a captive insurance company formed in December 2014, located in Nevada and dissolved in December 2023. The Bank includes F&M Insurance Agency, LLC, a subsidiary offering insurance products, which was formed in November 2023. We report our financial condition and net income on a consolidated basis and have only one segment. Our executive offices are located at 307 North Defiance Street, Archbold, Ohio 43502, and our telephone number is (419) 446-2501. For a discussion of the general development of the Company’s business throughout 2025, please see the portion of Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations captioned “2025 in Review.” Nature of Activities The Farmers & Merchants State Bank engages in general commercial banking and savings business including commercial, agricultural and residential mortgage as well as consumer lending activities. Because the Bank's offices are primarily located in 3 Northwest Ohio, Northeast Indiana and Southeast Michigan, a substantial amount of the loan portfolio is comprised of loans made to customers in the agricultural industry for such items as farmland, farm equipment, livestock and operating loans for seed, fertilizer, and feed. Other types of lending activities include loans for home improvements and loans for such items as autos, trucks, recreational vehicles and motorcycles. With the expansion into newer market areas, the most recent increases in loan activity have been in commercial and industrial, providing operating lines of credit and machinery purchases, and commercial real estate. The Bank also operates three Loan Production Offices (LPOs), two in Ohio and one in Indiana. The Bank also provides checking account services, as well as savings and time deposit services such as certificates of deposits. In addition, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) or Interactive Teller Machines (ITMs) are provided at most branch locations along with other independent locations in the market area. ITMs operate as an ATM with the addition of remote teller access to assist the user. The Bank has custodial services for Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). The Bank provides on-line banking access for consumer and business customers. For consumers, this includes bill-pay, on-line statement opportunities and mobile banking. For business customers, it provides the option of electronic transaction origination such as wire and Automated Clearing House (ACH) file transmittal. In addition, the Bank offers remote deposit capture or electronic deposit processing. Upgrades to our digital products and services continue to occur in both retail and business lines. The Bank continues to offer new suites of products as customer preferences change and the Bank adapts and adopts new technologies. The Bank continues to offer products that also meet the needs of our more traditional customers. The Bank has established underwriting policies and procedures which facilitate operating in a safe and sound manner in accordance with supervisory and regulatory guidance. Within this sphere of safety and soundness, the Bank's practice has been to not promote innovative, unproven credit products which may not be in the best interest of the Bank or its customers. The Bank does offer a hybrid mortgage loan. Hybrid loans are loans that start out as a fixed rate mortgage but after a set number of years automatically adjust to an adjustable rate mortgage. The Bank offers a seven and ten year fixed rate mortgage and a seven year jumbo fixed rate mortgage after which the interest rate will adjust annually for all. In order to offer longer term fixed rate mortgages, the Bank does participate in the Freddie Mac, Farm Service Agency (FSA) guaranteed secondary Agricultural market, and Small Business Lending programs. The Bank also normally retains the servicing rights on these partially or 100% sold loans.…