Annual Report - CoBank

StrategicRelationshipsForestProducts 9%Other 13%Nursery, Greenhouses 5%Grains 8%Farm RelatedBusiness Services 13%Dairy 14%Fish, Livestock,Poultry 23%Year-End Loan Volumeby IndustryFruits, Nuts,Vegetables 15%Through its Strategic Relationships operatingsegment, CoBank served as a wholesaleprovider of funds to four affiliated Farm Creditassociations in 2011: Farm Credit East, FarmCredit of Maine, Northwest Farm CreditServices, and Yankee Farm Credit. CoBankalso served as a partner of choice for a numberof other Farm Credit banks and associations,via loan participations and syndications andthrough providing cash management, treasuryproducts, leasing and other non-credit services.Average loan volume in this portfolio was$15.2 billion in 2011.On January 1, 2012, CoBank’s wholesalefinancing business expanded to include 25more Farm Credit associations because of themerger with U.S. AgBank. The average loanvolume of those associations is not included inthis report. For more information on CoBank’snew wholesale district, see the map andinformation on pages 12–13.BUILDING FORTOMORROW27