Company: AGM-PH
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000845877-25-000143
Chunk: 18

Company: FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL MORTGAGE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 18
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 of Stockholders, the Proxy Committee, as then constituted, will have the right to exercise discretionary voting authority on that proposal to the extent authorized by Rule 14a-4(c) under the Exchange Act.

For information about stockholders' nominations of individuals to stand for election as a director at an annual meeting, see "Proposal 1: Election of Directors—Stockholder Director Nominations."

| Communications with the Board |

Stockholders and other interested parties may communicate directly with members of the Board by writing to them at Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, 2100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 450N, Washington, DC 20037.

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| PROPOSAL 1: ELECTION OF DIRECTORS |

#### PROPOSAL 1:
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

| Board Structure |

Farmer Mac's charter provides that five of Farmer Mac's directors are elected by the Class A Holders and that five directors are elected by the Class B Holders. At the Meeting, ten directors will be elected for one-year terms. All five of the Class A nominees and all five of the Class B nominees currently serve as members of the Board. The directors elected by the Class A Holders and the Class B Holders at the Meeting will hold office until Farmer Mac's 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, or until their respective successors have been duly elected and qualified.

The charter also provides that the President of the United States appoints five members to the Board with the advice and consent of the United States Senate ("Appointed Members"). The Appointed Members serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States, who also designates one of the Appointed Members as the Board Chair. After the election at the Meeting, the Board will consist of the five Appointed Members named under "—Information about Nominees for Directors—Directors Appointed by the President of the United States" below (or such other Appointed Members who may be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate between March 21, 2025 and May 15, 2025) and the ten members who are elected by the holders of Farmer Mac's Voting Common Stock.

| Selection of Director Nominees by Board |

The Corporate Governance Committee facilitates the selection of director nominees. Farmer Mac's By-Laws require the Corporate Governance Committee to consist of two Appointed Members (one of whom serves as the chair of the Corporate Governance Committee), two directors elected by the holders of the Class A Voting Common Stock, and two directors elected