Company: AGM-PH
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000845877-25-000033
Chunk: 115

Company: FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL MORTGAGE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 115
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 Corporate AgFinance loan, including assessing the borrower's leverage, cash flows, liquidity, revenue and margin trends, as well as evaluating the borrower's suppliers, customers, market share, and competition. Any underlying weaknesses are assessed and analyzed in conjunction with any compensating strengths. Corporate AgFinance loans also typically require ongoing monitoring of reporting requirements and financial and non-financial covenants. Farmer Mac relies on the experience of internal underwriters with the expertise to analyze large, complex farming operations and agribusiness loans, along with collateral valuation contractors, and legal counsel to perform the necessary diligence to assess the overall credit risk and loan structures of these transactions. Farmer Mac has developed business operating processes and skill sets to source, underwrite, close, and service Corporate AgFinance loans. Those processes and skill sets are different than those required for Farm & Ranch loans and, accordingly, have a higher operating expense profile than for Farm & Ranch loans.

Lenders  

Farmer Mac approves lenders into its network of Farm & Ranch loan sellers based on an assessment of the lender's credit profile, which may include factors such as the institution's credit rating, origination history, or financial profile. Most lenders that participate in Farmer Mac's secondary market for Farm & Ranch loans meet prescribed criteria that Farmer Mac establishes for loan-selling counterparties, which typically include the requirement to:

•own a requisite amount of Farmer Mac common stock according to a schedule prescribed for the size and type of institution;

•have, in the judgment of Farmer Mac, the ability and experience to make or purchase and sell Farm & Ranch loans and service those loans in accordance with Farmer Mac's requirements either through the lender's own staff or through contractors and originators, as well as have appropriate internal controls, policies, and procedures;

•maintain a minimum amount of net liquidity or appropriate credit enhancements; and

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•enter into a Seller/Servicer Agreement, which requires compliance with the terms of Farmer Mac's Seller/Servicer Guide, including providing representations and warranties about the eligibility of the loans and accuracy of loan data provided to Farmer Mac.

Any lender authorized by the USDA to obtain a USDA guarantee on a loan may participate in Farmer Mac's secondary market for USDA Securities.  

Farmer Mac purchases Corporate AgFinance loans and unfunded commitments from a diverse set of lenders that support financing of the agriculture sector. Lenders may be existing Farm & Ranch lenders that have larger, more complex borrowers in their territories, as well as larger financial and non-bank institutions, such as national and regional banks