Company: AGM-PH
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000845877-25-000252
Chunk: 92

Company: FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL MORTGAGE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 92
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Business Outlook

Products and Portfolio

Farmer Mac serves a vital role in serving rural America by offering liquidity, capital, and risk management tools as a secondary market to help increase the accessibility of financing to provide vital liquidity for American agriculture and rural infrastructure. The growth trajectory of Farmer Mac is closely tied to the capital and liquidity needs of the lending institutions serving agriculture and infrastructure businesses and the overall financial health of borrowers in these sectors.

Several factors continue to influence business volume growth dynamics. The persistently elevated market interest rates have had a direct effect on Farmer Mac’s Farm & Ranch product interest rates, which have continued to slow portfolio loan prepayments. Also, a tightening agricultural economy is creating the need for additional liquidity and working capital for borrowers managing through this agricultural cycle. The net effect of these forces contributed to strong Farm & Ranch loan purchase portfolio growth in third quarter 2025. Future changes in monetary policy, sustained elevated product interest rates, the impact of changes to global trade policies (including tariffs and trade restrictions), and the financial health of borrowers are anticipated to influence the demand for agricultural real estate mortgage loans and the pace of prepayments. Farmer Mac experienced a decrease in wholesale finance volume during third quarter 2025, driven by slower market loan growth and a tightening of market credit spreads that resulted in less liquidity and diversification needs from our counterparties. During third quarter 2025, Farmer Mac closed a new AgVantage facility with a maximum borrowing capacity of $4.3 billion with a counterparty, demonstrating the continued interest in this unique wholesale finance product. Future wholesale finance growth will likely be influenced by market interest rates and credit spreads, overall economic conditions and loan growth opportunities, and the relative value of Farmer Mac’s product versus the broader market. Continued strong interest in data centers, broadband expansion, and constructing and completing renewable energy projects before the sunset of tax credits, and the overall need for energy generation and transmission capacity for rural America, provide significant opportunities for Infrastructure Finance for the remainder of 2025 and into future years. 

Opportunities for profitable future business volume growth include Farmer Mac's potential role in alleviating liquidity, capital, and return-on-equity challenges faced by agricultural and infrastructure lenders. The suite of Farmer Mac's offerings encompasses loan and loan portfolio purchases, participations, guarantees, LTSPCs, wholesale funding, and securitizations. Ongoing business and product development efforts continue to attract private lenders, institutional investors and nontraditional originators, resulting in the diversification of Farmer Mac's customer base and product set,