STRATEGIC PLAN

FY 2024–2029
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Mission .................................................................................................................................................... 2

Values...................................................................................................................................................... 2

Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 2

Insurance Fund and Financial Management ........................................................................................ 3

Risk Management ................................................................................................................................ 4

Receivership, Conservatorship, and Assistance Readiness ................................................................. 4

Strategic Challenges ................................................................................................................................ 5

External Macro Environment and Policy Factors ................................................................................ 6

Farm Credit System Factors ................................................................................................................ 7

Internal Factors.................................................................................................................................... 8

Program Areas......................................................................................................................................... 9

Program Area Performance Measures..................................................................................................... 9

Strategic Goals and Objectives.............................................................................................................. 12

Appendix A: FCSIC’s Strategic Planning Process ................................................................................ 22
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MISSION

The Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation (FCSIC or the Corporation), a Government-controlled, 

independent entity, shall

• protect investors in insured Farm Credit System (System) obligations and taxpayers through sound 

administration of the Farm Credit Insurance Fund (Insurance Fund),

• exercise its authorities to minimize Insurance Fund loss, and 

• help ensure the future of a permanent system for delivery of credit to agricultural borrowers.

VALUES

Six core values guide us in accomplishing FCSIC’s mission:

• Integrity: We follow the highest ethical and professional standards. 

• Competence: We are a skilled, dedicated, and diverse workforce that strives to achieve 

outstanding results. 

• Teamwork: We communicate and collaborate with one another and with other regulatory 

agencies.

• Effectiveness: We respond quickly and prudently to insurance risks.

• Accountability: We are accountable to each other and to our stakeholders to operate in a fiscally

responsible and operationally effective manner. 

• Fairness: We respect individual viewpoints and treat one another and our stakeholders with 

impartiality, respect, and fairness. 

INTRODUCTION

FCSIC was established by the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 as an independent U.S. Governmentcontrolled corporation. The Corporation’s primary purpose is to insure the timely payment of principal 

and interest on notes, bonds and other obligations jointly issued on behalf of System banks. The 

System is a federally chartered network of cooperative lending institutions owned by the agricultural 

and rural customers it serves, including farmers, ranchers, producers or harvesters of aquatic products, 

agricultural cooperatives, and farm-related businesses. By insuring the repayment of insured debt 

securities to investors, the Corporation helps to maintain a dependable source of funds for the 

System’s borrowers. Additionally, the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended, requires that the 

Corporation serve as the conservator or receiver for System banks and associations. 

FCSIC operates with no annually appropriated funds. The Corporation maintains the Farm Credit 

Insurance Fund (Insurance Fund) and collects annual insurance premiums from each System bank. 

The Insurance Fund, grown by premiums and the income from the Corporation’s investments, 

provides the funds to fulfill FCSIC’s mission. FCSIC is governed by a three-member board of 

directors composed of the members of the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) Board. The Chairman of 

the Corporation’s Board, however, must be a Board member other than the FCA Chairman. 
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FCSIC operates using a cost-efficient business model, maintaining a small core staff while outsourcing 

most of its support functions. Operating in this manner requires that we attract and retain highly 

motivated, versatile, and skilled employees. FCSIC employees report high levels of engagement and 

job satisfaction in annual surveys. Because of our lean staffing structure, recruitment of multi-skilled 

individuals and ongoing cross training are essential to ensure adequate backup exists in key corporate 

programs. 

In addition to maximizing our employee resources, key to our success is our ability to effectively 

coordinate with FCA, other federal agency partners, and non-federal contractors to ensure necessary 

support for FCSIC programs and employees. Also vital is effective communication -- with FCA, other 

federal agencies, Congress, and System representatives -- and the ability to respond flexibly and 

quickly to changing conditions and regulatory and legislative initiatives that impact FCSIC and the 

Insurance Fund. 

The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 requires FCSIC to assess, as part of its 

strategic plan, the coverage, quality, methods, effectiveness, and independence of the statistics, 

evaluation, research, and analysis we use to effectuate those programs. In carrying out our programs, 

we rely almost exclusively on data owned and controlled by third parties. Additionally, with a very 

small staff, FCSIC management is aware of all of the data used by FCSIC employees. FCSIC 

management, led by FCSIC’s Chief Data Officer (who primarily serves as FCSIC’s Chief Risk 

Officer), continually assesses FCSIC’s data needs and incorporates that into our strategic and annual 

planning. 

FCSIC carries out its insurance program mission through three major areas: (1) Insurance Fund and 

financial management, (2) risk management, and (3) receivership, conservatorship, and assistance 

readiness. 

Insurance Fund and Financial Management 

The Corporation helps maintain public confidence in the System by insuring the System banks’ debt 

obligations. Management of the Insurance Fund involves important tasks such as ensuring that 

premiums are at an adequate level to meet the Insurance Fund’s Secure Base Amount (SBA), that the 

SBA is sufficient to fulfill insurance obligations, and that the Corporation maintains robust and 

dependable financial reporting and internal controls. The Insurance Fund is an asset of the United 

States government and can only be used by FCSIC for the purposes provided for in the Farm Credit 

Act. 

As part of Insurance Fund and financial management the Corporation: 

• establishes premium rates, and collects and audits insurance premiums, to maintain the Insurance 

Fund at the SBA; 

• manages the investment portfolio to minimize loss exposure and secondarily seek to optimize the 

rate of return within approved parameters; 

• prepares accurate and timely accounting and financial reports; 

• maintains strong internal controls that are free of significant deficiencies and material weaknesses; 

• contracts with third parties for essential support services; 
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• maintains preparedness to quickly hire competent staff and contractor resources to meet 

obligations in a System financial crisis; 

• manages all payments that support program operations; 

• ensures the Corporation is utilizing appropriate systems and mechanisms to effectively manage 

workflow, decisions, procedures, and policies; and,

• consults with the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation (Funding Corporation) 

regarding the disclosure of System financial information. 

Risk Management 

The Corporation identifies, evaluates, and manages risks that could generate losses to the Insurance 

Fund. The Corporation: 

• uses monitoring systems, financial models, and special examinations to analyze the insurance risks 

posed by System institutions and reports risk trends regularly to the Board of Directors and 

external auditor; 

• monitors conditions in the general economy, capital markets, and agricultural and financial sectors 

that pose risk to the System, its investors, and the Insurance Fund; 

• reviews System institution financial performance information, including FCA examination reports 

of System banks, large associations, and institutions identified by FCA as troubled and 

participates on FCA’s Regulatory Enforcement Committee; 

• quarterly evaluates the adequacy of the allowance for losses to the Insurance Fund; 

• consults with FCA regarding changes in risks to the Insurance Fund resulting from proposed 

institution mergers; 

• works with FCA on regulations and policies that mitigate risks to the Insurance Fund; and 

• reviews funding requests of undercapitalized System banks. 

Receivership, Conservatorship, and Assistance Readiness 

When the FCA Board places a troubled System institution into either conservatorship or receivership, 

the Farm Credit Act requires FCSIC to serve as conservator or receiver of the troubled or failed 

institution. In addition, the FCA Board may appoint FCSIC as conservator or receiver of the Federal 

Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (FMAC); however, the Farm Credit Act specifically precludes use 

of the Insurance Fund to provide any support for FMAC.

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 As conservator, FCSIC would operate the 

institution as a going concern subject to oversight and regulation by FCA. As receiver, FCSIC would 

exercise its statutory fiduciary responsibilities to marshal the receivership estate’s assets and recover 

the maximum amount possible under the law for the receivership’s creditors. The Agriculture 

Improvement Act of 2018 clarified and updated FCSIC’s statutory authorities to act as receiver or 

conservator for a System institution (with authorities and powers functionally equivalent to other 

1 Section 5.65(e) of the Farm Credit Act of 1971 (12 U.S.C. 2277a–14(e)). 
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federal financial institution receivers/conservators) and provided new authority for FCSIC to create, 

and FCA to charter, a System bridge bank. 

The FCSIC Board, in its sole discretion, is also authorized under the Act to provide “stand-alone 

assistance” to a System institution to prevent placing an institution into receivership, to restore an 

institution to normal operation, or to stem financial contagion within the System that poses a risk to 

the Insurance Fund. The Act also authorizes FCSIC to provide assistance to facilitate a merger or 

consolidation of a troubled “qualifying” System institution with another System institution. All 

assistance must meet the statutory least-cost test and the means of providing assistance must be the 

least costly to the Insurance Fund of all possible alternatives available to the Corporation, 

including liquidation. FCSIC would determine the type and structure of assistance, enter into an 

agreement with the System institution(s) and monitor the effectiveness of the assistance.

The Corporation 

• maintains the potential to manage receiverships and conservatorships, and oversee bridge banks; 

• plans and trains for receivership, conservatorship, and financial assistance actions by focusing on 

activities and scenarios that are assumed most likely and would require an immediate response;

• monitors relevant legislation, regulations, legal cases, appraisal, and environmental issues; 

• maintains relationships and formal agreements with other federal insurers that serve as conservator 

or receiver of banks, thrifts and credit unions, for ongoing training and support; 

• maintains preparedness, coordinates with the System, and reviews requests for liquidity assistance 

in exigent market circumstances;

• reviews requests for assistance from troubled institutions; and 

• maintains preparedness to quickly identify competent staff and contractor resources to meet 

receivership or conservatorship obligations. 

STRATEGIC CHALLENGES

FCSIC believes that insurance risk remains low with little likelihood of a loss to the Insurance Fund in 

the near term. However, over the five-year period covered by this plan, FCSIC will likely face 

strategic challenges in fulfilling its mission. Challenges may arise from changing economic conditions, 

continuing changes in agriculture and financial markets, government policy changes, changes in the 

System, and internal operating factors. 

The strategic challenges that may affect the Corporation are grouped into three broad risk areas: (1) 

external macro environment and policy factors, (2) System factors, and (3) internal factors. The first 

two categories of risks described below, if realized, could have a significant negative effect on the 

System’s business, financial condition, and operations which could result in the System banks’ 

inability to pay their insured debt on a timely basis, resulting in loss to the Insurance Fund. The third

category includes risks that could have a significant negative impact on FCSIC’s ability to effectively 

carry out its mission. We monitor these challenges on an ongoing basis. As conditions change, 

refinements of strategies are considered and implemented when appropriate. 
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External Macro Environment and Policy Factors

The macro environment and associated government policies directly affects financial markets and the 

performance of the financial institutions that comprise the Farm Credit System and therefore directly 

impacts FCSIC’s risks associated with insuring System debt obligations. Specific strategic challenges 

to FCSIC include: 

• Geopolitical risks. The geopolitical environment, whether from escalation of current tensions or 

new, unexpected events, can create significant risk to the agricultural economy. For example, the 

relationship between the U.S. and China could become more fragmented leading to deglobalization 

and a more regional economic order which could reduce U.S. agricultural exports to China and/or 

increase the cost for certain farm inputs due to trade impediments (e.g., increased tariffs). Extended 

continuation or escalation of the war in Ukraine could increase farm input costs from further global 

supply chain disruptions. And an escalation in geopolitical tension from either China or Russia could 

also increase risks of cyberwarfare. 

• Risks to the general economy. The Federal Reserve has aggressively raised interest rates to curtail 

inflation, which could slow consumer and business spending, reduce U.S. exports, and weaken 

overall economic growth. Unemployment could increase, which could negatively reduce the 

prospects of off-farm income. Domestic demand for certain U.S. agricultural products could decline. 

Financial institutions could experience stress from higher funding costs, rising delinquency and loss 

rates, and greater interest rate risk. 

• Less favorable conditions in agriculture. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, farm income has been 

very strong, driven by a broad rise in agricultural commodity prices as well as unprecedented levels 

of government support. However, production agriculture is a cyclical business that is influenced 

heavily by international and domestic demand for U.S. agricultural products and commodity prices. 

Volatile agricultural commodity prices combined with the increased costs of farm inputs (including 

interest rates) could have an adverse impact on the cash flow and profitability of certain System 

borrowers. Additionally, farm income could also be negatively impacted by changes in the U.S. 

government’s support programs for agriculture, changes to trade agreements and policies, 

deteriorating economic conditions internationally, or an increase in the U.S. dollar’s value. A 

sustained agriculture downturn could result in significant deterioration in the credit quality of the 

System’s loan portfolio. 

• Potential adverse changes in the debt market. The System is currently able to borrow money at 

very favorable rates; the System’s success depends on its ability to access flexible, low-cost funding. 

A material adverse change in access to or cost of new debt, whether driven by external factors (such 

as change in GSE status or market disruption) or internal (credit or other System-centric issue) 

creates a higher likelihood of System bank default on outstanding insured debt. 

• Climate change. System borrowers’ productivity and income is directly impacted by changes in 

climate, including rising average temperatures, more frequent and severe global and domestic 

weather-related events, more forest and wildfires, heatwaves, untimely freezes, extreme flooding, 

and droughts. Longer term issues include water availability, cost of water, and reduced crop yields. 

These climate related impacts may adversely affect System institution business strategies, plans and 
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financial results. Over time, increased delinquency and default rates, and loan loss frequency and 

severity, could increase the risk of losses to the Insurance Fund. 

• Structural Government Budget Issues. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government has 

run enormous federal deficits. If economic growth remains moderate and interest rates remain higher 

than recent historical trends, debt service cost could become the biggest budget item. Rating 

agencies have highlighted a steady deterioration of federal fiscal and debt governance over the last 

20 years, including the repeated debt-limit standoffs and inability to agree to timely budgets, eroding 

confidence in fiscal management. The combination of these factors may influence financial markets, 

including agency debt issuers and investors. Pressure to reduce spending to return finances to a 

sustainable path or continued fiscal disfunction could reduce the government’s ability and 

willingness to support the increasing costs of agriculture programs (e.g., crop insurance, disaster 

relief). 

• Technological Advancements including Artificial Intelligence (AI). The rate of technological 

change continues to accelerate, particularly with new technologies like AI. While the promise of AI 

is a step function improvement in productivity, there could be meaningful unexpected impacts and 

disruption to the economy, agriculture, and financial services. 

Farm Credit System Factors2

• Maintaining strong bank capital levels. System associations are dependent on System banks for 

their funding, which is primarily raised through the issuance of insured debt. Only the System banks 

are legally obligated to repay the debt insured by FCSIC. As stated in the Federal Farm Credit Banks 

Funding Corporation’s disclosures, the insured Systemwide debt securities “are not the direct 

obligations of the [System] associations and, as a result, the capital of the associations may not be 

available to support” repayment of insured Systemwide debt securities. Therefore, the 

investors/creditors, and FCSIC, as insurer, can legally only look to the assets of the System banks for 

recovery. Substantial reduction of the banks’ repayment capacity (which includes the effect of 

affiliated associations) – such as by materially reducing the amount or quality of capital held at the 

banks – could create a significant risk to FCSIC, the actuarial soundness of the Insurance Fund, and 

the ability of associations to continue to extend credit. 

• Large association concentration risk. System associations currently are generally healthy, wellcapitalized and effectively supervised by FCA, and as such the probability of an association default 

on a direct note is low. However, with fewer and larger associations, some associations are very 

large and pose a significant concentration risk to their funding banks. A default on a large 

association direct note could cause severe stress at the bank, exposing the Insurance Fund to losses. 

Accordingly, it is imperative for Insurance Fund solvency that there be sufficient risk mitigants in 

place to reduce the likelihood of a bank default that originates from a large association failure.

2 Institutions of the System operate under the regulatory and supervisory authority of the Farm Credit Administration (FCA); 

FCSIC relies on FCA’s oversight as a risk mitigant. 
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• Operational failure at a System institution related to a control deficiency or cybersecurity 

breach. A catastrophic cyber-attack could prevent a bank from processing payments, potentially 

causing a default on insured debt. Internal controls failures could also have severe impacts, including 

preventing the System from timely issuing financial statements, which may significantly impact the 

banks’ cost of borrowing. 

• Inadequate governance at a System institution including failed business strategies or 

mismanagement of the organization. Historically, more financial institutions have failed because 

of bad strategic decisions than because of credit problems. This includes bad investment decisions 

unrelated to their core lending business. Elevated interest rates, more complex asset-liability and 

investment management, and recent commercial bank stresses highlight such potential challenges. 

Since these decisions are usually classified as within ‘business judgment,’ these risks are harder to 

identify and quantify. Moreover, these decisions are often incremental, with the cumulative impacts 

not recognized in a timely manner.

• Changes that impact System banks’ ability to repay insured obligations, effectively supervise 

their associations, and serve as a source of strength to their districts. Any System changes that 

alter the traditional bank-association relationship have the potential to weaken the banks’ capability 

to repay the insured debt and to serve as a source of strength for their districts. Historically, System 

banks have served as a source of strength for their district by providing constructive supervision, 

expertise, financial and operational support to their affiliated associations when needed. If the banks 

reduce their influence over district operations, or do not have the financial or operational capacity to 

provide support to their affiliated associations, then it is more likely the Insurance Fund would be 

called upon to provide assistance. 

• Rapid Impact of Emerging and Unexpected Risks. While traditional credit risk often has a 

meaningful runway to allow institutions to manage the risk well before substantial capital losses 

materialize, other risks may manifest themselves quickly. These risks could be financial, 

technological, or even pathological (whether affecting humans, livestock or crops.) Real time data, 

vigilance, and agility of all System stakeholders is critical. Unexpected risks or the inability to 

respond quickly and effectively could result in increased risk to the Insurance Fund. 

Internal Factors

FCSIC faces several challenges that could have a significant negative impact on the Corporation’s 

ability to effectively carry out its mission.

• Maintaining independence. Maintaining the Corporation’s statutory role as an independent entity is 

crucial to its ability to objectively assess insurance risks, establish appropriate insurance premium 

rates, ensure the solvency of the Insurance Fund, and serve as conservator or receiver. The 

Corporation will continue to use private- and public-sector contractors to economize and enhance 

productivity in accordance with statutory authorities and Board policy statements. Ensuring 

independence while maintaining a cost-effective business model presents various challenges, 

including the ability of FCSIC to retain operational independence while using outside resources to 

meet its mission and comply with increasing government-wide mandates for federal agencies.

• Data access. FCSIC must have access to relevant data and continuously assess and update its risk 

tools and processes to ensure prompt identification and accurate analysis of emerging insurance risk. 
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• Reliance on FCA. The Corporation relies on FCA for accurate information the Corporation needs to 

determine premiums, assess insurance risk, and prepare for a conservatorship or receivership. Unlike 

the other federal insurers, FCSIC does not have direct supervisory authority over its insured banks. 

Therefore, FCSIC is reliant on FCA maintaining a robust examination, supervisory, and regulatory 

oversight program over the FCS in order to manage its insurance risks. Continued access to 

information and effective collaboration with FCA staff is vital to the Corporation’s effectiveness.

• Human resources. FCSIC must address human resources challenges inherent with a small staff. 

Management and staff development and succession will be important considerations over the next 

five years (when many of FCSIC’s staff are eligible to retire) to maintain the Corporation’s 

effectiveness under its unique operating structure. FCSIC needs to attract, engage, and retain a 

highly skilled, diverse workforce and cultivate an inclusive environment. Additionally, FCSIC’s 

cost-effective operating model impacts its ability to maintain continual readiness to act as 

conservator or receiver for a System institution. In the event of a System crisis or troubled System 

institution, the Corporation would need to rapidly upscale its human resources using all available 

hiring and contracting authorities. 

• Board composition. FCSIC shares a board with the FCA (with a different chairman) and the 

composition of the Corporation’s Board of Directors will change during the next five years. 

• Maintaining line of credit. The Corporation diligently works to maintain its liquidity line with the 

U.S. Treasury’s Federal Financing Bank (FFB) so it is available in situations where external market 

forces make normal debt market access extremely doubtful. However, continuation of the credit line 

is within the discretion of the FFB and may be subject to political factors outside of FCSIC’s control. 

PROGRAM AREAS

The Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation has three program areas. The strategic goals for each of 

these areas are presented in the table below. 

Program Areas Strategic Goals 

Insurance Fund and Financial 

Management

Manage the Insurance Fund to maintain the SBA. Ensure effective 

internal controls over operations and financial reporting. 

Risk Management Monitor, evaluate, report, and mitigate risks that could generate 

losses to the Insurance Fund. 

Receivership, Conservatorship 

and Assistance Readiness

Be prepared to act as receiver or conservator or to provide assistance if 

called upon. 

PROGRAM AREA PERFORMANCE MEASURES

The Corporation has implemented performance measures to assist in the evaluation of the effectiveness 

of these strategic goals. The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) requires all 

Federal government organizations to report on the results of program performance. Performance results

are included in regular reports to the Board of Directors and in the Corporation’s Annual Report. Some 
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of these measures use management estimates that may be affected by the performance and condition of 

System institutions. Also, unforeseen events may have a material effect on performance measures over 

time.

Program Area 1: Insurance Fund and Financial Management

Building and Managing the Fund to Protect Investors 

The solvency of the Insurance Fund depends in part on the Corporation using its authorities to adjust 

insurance premium assessments when appropriate and effectively managing assets to ensure investment 

returns are maximized, while maintaining appropriate liquidity to carry out its mission. Congress 

established a statutory requirement for the Insurance Fund to be maintained at a SBA equal to 2 percent 

of adjusted insured obligations or such other percentage as the Corporation in its sole discretion 

determines to be actuarially sound.3

The Corporation assesses the effectiveness of its performance in achieving this goal through the 

following: 

• Reviewing, at least semiannually, the need for adjustments to insurance premium assessments. 

• Measuring investment performance using reasonable qualitative and/or quantitative benchmarks. 

• Maintaining the Insurance Fund at the statutory SBA, 2 percent of adjusted outstanding insured 

obligations. Maintaining the Insurance Fund at the SBA is affected by events beyond the control of 

the Corporation such as insurance losses that arise from troubled System institutions or growth in 

insured obligations exceeding FCSIC’s ability to increase the Insurance Fund at the same rate 

because of statutory limits on premium assessments.

• Performing an annual assessment of the effectiveness of FCSIC’s enterprise risk management and 

internal control systems in accordance with guidelines provided by Office of Management and 

Budget to implement the Federal Manager’s Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA). This assessment 

supports management’s assurance statement.

• Maintaining clean or unmodified audit opinions from our independent auditors, free from any 

material weaknesses. 

• Developing and maintaining updated draft statements of work for business consulting and resolution 

activities, updated listings of vendors and consultants with resolution experience, and access to 

government contracting resources like the General Services Administration (GSA) System for 

Award Management (SAM) to ensure quick execution of new contracts during a resolution period. 

• Participating in frequent meetings with third-party service providers, including FCA, to ensure 

contracted services remain capable of providing support to FCSIC, including executing key 

functions such as supporting expedited hiring activities. 

3 Adjusted insured obligations are equal to the aggregate amount of outstanding insured obligations adjusted downward by a 

percentage of the guaranteed portions of principal outstanding on certain government-guaranteed loans and investments.
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Program Area 2: Risk Management – Protecting the Fund from Losses

Protecting the Fund from Losses

Program effectiveness is measured by the extent that emerging problems are promptly detected and 

insurance losses minimized. This includes effective use of financial indicators to monitor conditions and 

trends, and effective analysis and reporting before any need to reserve for losses. 

In accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, the Corporation must recognize an 

allowance for loss on its financial statements if a loss is probable and can be reasonably estimated.4 

Timely evaluation of the Insurance Fund’s risk exposure is critical to the determination of steps needed 

to preserve the Insurance Fund’s solvency. In accordance with the Corporation’s Policy Statement 

Concerning Allowance for Insurance Fund Losses, management assesses the need for an allowance at 

least quarterly using criteria specified in FCSIC’s Allowance for Loss procedure. The Corporation uses 

information obtained from FCA reports of examination and other source materials to identify risks to the 

Insurance Fund. Internal models and other analysis tools are used to manage identified risks and reduce 

insurance risk. If approved by the Board of Directors, the Corporation may independently examine and 

obtain additional information from System institutions. 

Program Area 3: Receivership, Conservatorship, and Assistance Readiness

The Corporation is required to serve as receiver or conservator of System banks and associations when 

appointed by FCA. Additionally, the FCSIC Board may provide assistance to one or more System 

institutions to prevent placing an institution into receivership, restore an institution to normal operation, 

or stem financial contagion within the System. This goal requires that corporate readiness be maintained 

through periodic staff training, periodic review of potential strategies and procedures, and evaluation of 

potential resources available to ensure that sufficient qualified resources can be employed should the 

need arise. 

The effectiveness of readiness efforts will be measured by the following: 

• Maintaining a line of credit with the Federal Financing Bank to be available for use as additional 

FCSIC assistance to System banks in exigent market circumstances. 

• Conducting training exercises with System banks and the Funding Corporation at least every two 

years regarding liquidity assistance procedures in exigent market circumstances and reviewing 

contact information and documentation annually. 

• Timely reviewing and updating policies and procedures related to receiverships, conservatorships, 

and assistance in accordance with the Corporation’s bylaws. 

• Engaging with other federal insurers (e.g., FDIC, NCUA) for training, support, and sharing of best 

practices on at least an annual basis. 

• Developing and maintaining a multi-year plan that identifies priority areas for receivership, 

conservatorship, and assistance readiness enhancement considering the stress scenarios that are 

4 A loss exposure that is judged to be possible or probable but cannot be reasonably estimated would be disclosed in a 

footnote to the Corporation’s financial statements.
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considered the most likely and would require an immediate response, consistent with FCSIC’s 

available resources. 

The effectiveness of receivership, conservatorship, and assistance operations, if required, will be 

measured by the following: 

• Completing initial processing of all claims within a period to be specified in accordance with the 

size and complexity of the individual case. 

• Operating costs as a percentage of total assets. 

• Actual asset recovery returns as a percentage of net realizable asset values.

• Exit of a conservatorship within a period to be specified in accordance with the initial plan of 

conservatorship. 

• Completing analysis, Board recommendations, and execution of approved assistance requests 

within a time period that allows the assistance to have the potential to be effective.

• Effectiveness of any such assistance to avoid additional claims on the Insurance Fund. 

STRATEGIC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Program Area 1: Insurance Fund and Financial Management

Strategic Goal 1: Manage the Insurance Fund to maintain the SBA in order to provide protection 

for investors and taxpayers against identified risks. 

Congress established a statutory requirement for the Insurance Fund to be maintained at an SBA equal to 

2 percent of adjusted insured obligations or such other percentage as the Corporation has determined to 

be actuarially sound. The Corporation uses the Dynamic Capital Adequacy Test model to assist in 

assessing an actuarially sound Insurance Fund level. FCSIC has maintained a 2 percent SBA since the 

inception of the Corporation and will not consider changing the SBA unless the 2 percent is determined 

not to be actuarially sound. 

Strategic Objectives

1. Manage the Insurance Fund to ensure adequate liquidity while optimizing investment returns and

ensuring premium collections and refunds reflect anticipated changes in adjusted insured debt 

levels and potential insurance claims. 

2. Use actuarial and risk management tools to evaluate the adequacy of investor protections and 

risk exposures to the Insurance Fund. 

3. Communicate accurate and easily understood information about the insurance program to 

Congress, the public, insured investors, federal agency partners, and System institutions. 

The means and strategies used to achieve these strategic objectives and the external factors that could 

affect their achievement are described below.
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Strategic Objective 1: Manage the Insurance Fund to ensure adequate liquidity while optimizing 

investment returns and ensuring premium collections and refunds reflect anticipated changes in 

adjusted insured debt levels and potential insurance claims. 

Means & Strategies 

FCSIC maintains the viability of the Insurance Fund by prudently investing the Fund, monitoring 

and responding to changes in the Fund relative to the SBA, collecting premiums, and evaluating 

the Insurance Fund’s management and performance. FCSIC regularly analyzes the growth or 

shrinkage of estimated insured obligations, the current assessment base, loss expectations, 

interest income earned on the Insurance Fund, and operating expenses. This information is used 

to determine future premium rates. These activities are conducted in accordance with the Board’s 

Policy Statement Concerning Insurance Premiums. 

External Factors 

As discussed in the Strategic Challenges section above, projections for the Insurance Fund are 

subject to considerable uncertainty arising from the economic outlook and condition of the Farm 

Credit System. In addition, future premium revenues could diverge from projections depending 

on changes in the growth of insured obligations, while investment earnings and the market value 

of the investment portfolio can be impacted by changing market interest rates. 

Strategic Objective 2: Use actuarial and risk management tools to evaluate the adequacy of 

investor protections and risk exposures to the Insurance Fund.

Means & Strategies 

FCSIC uses an insurance risk model to estimate the likelihood the Insurance Fund will be 

sufficient to pay all simulated losses over a 10-year horizon (probability of Fund adequacy).

Known as the Dynamic Capital Adequacy Test (DCAT), this actuarial loss model is a Monte 

Carlo simulation of Insurance Fund losses due to a System bank failure as a result of loan or 

investment losses. FCSIC will continue to use the DCAT for sensitivity testing to model the 

impact of various scenarios on the solvency of the Insurance Fund and periodically reviews the 

DCAT model to enhance the model's capabilities, improve controls and validate results. FCSIC 

uses a variety of risk management tools in addition to DCAT to supplement and enhance its 

assessment of the adequacy of the Insurance Fund. 

External Factors 

The DCAT does not model the reasons an institution defaulted but, instead, attempts to capture 

the overall likelihood as an explicit assumption and to evaluate the consequential loss pattern. 

The DCAT cannot predict the future, but it is a useful tool for evaluating the likelihood and 

amount of potential losses to the Insurance Fund. 
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Strategic Objective 3: Communicate accurate and easily understood information about the 

insurance program to Congress, the public, insured investors, federal agency partners, and 

System institutions. 

Means & Strategies 

FCSIC will continue to communicate the benefits of the insurance program to stakeholders 

through its website, Annual Report, periodic press releases, Congressional visits, presentations, 

and other efforts. We will coordinate with the Funding Corporation to ensure selling group 

members and investors are well informed. We will continue to identify and pursue dialogue with 

System leadership on issues of mutual concern and seek additional opportunities to expand 

contacts and information sharing with other organizations that have knowledge in areas that can 

benefit the Corporation. 

External Factors 

Timely, accurate and understandable information is essential for effective communication to 

stakeholders and the public. FCSIC relies on partnerships with FCA, System institutions, and the 

Funding Corporation to effectively reach stakeholders. 

Strategic Goal 2: Maintain effective internal controls and financial reporting. 

The Insurance Fund has grown significantly since its inception. Internal controls and financial reporting 

are important to safeguard resources and maintain integrity in the information reported by FCSIC. 

Strategic Objective 1: Obtain clean or unmodified audit opinions and a control environment free 

of material weaknesses. 

Means & Strategies 

FCSIC performs continuous internal control monitoring, evaluation, and testing. Annually an 

assessment of the effectiveness of FCSIC’s enterprise risk management and internal control 

systems is performed. This process results in management’s assurance statement on the 

effectiveness of internal controls and helps ensure we remain free from any significant or 

material internal control issues. FCSIC has received a clean or unmodified external audit opinion 

for 33 consecutive years. 

External Factors 

Requirements for audit, accounting, and internal controls are set by law, such as from the Federal 

Management’s Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA), or by third parties such as the AICPA. OMB 

frequently issues guidance to implement laws such as OMB’s Circular A-123, Management’s 

Responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Control, which provides guidance 

on implementing FMFIA. Generally accepted accounting principles and auditing standards are 

continually evolving. 

Strategic Goal 3: Maximize effectiveness of contracting.

Outsourcing support functions is an essential part of FCSIC’s operating model. Effective use of 

contracting authorities, under the supervision of FCSIC’s financial management division, is integral to 

FCSIC’s success. 
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Strategic Objective 1: Ensure FCSIC follows best practices in contracting including maintaining 

the capability to quickly engage third parties, including intergovernmental resources or 

contractors, as necessary to respond to a crisis situation. 

Means & Strategies

FCSIC implements its Board Policy Statement Concerning Contracting through establishing and 

implementing procedures that incorporate government best practices. FCSIC reviews the 

performance of service organizations on a frequent basis through periodic meetings with service 

partners. FCSIC also reviews service auditor reports or other relevant reports from our partners, 

such as FCA’s Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) report, to ensure 

that internal controls at service organizations are appropriate. 

External Factors 

FCSIC does not have management control over third party contractors and may be subject to 

delays or failures in critical areas outside of our direct control, including information technology. 

Program Area 2: Risk Management

Strategic Goal 4: Monitor, evaluate, report, and mitigate risks that could generate losses to the 

Insurance Fund.

FCSIC monitors and manages insurance risk to minimize the Insurance Fund’s exposure to potential 

losses. In the event a System bank is unable to timely repay insured debt obligations for which it is 

primarily liable, the Corporation must expend amounts in the Insurance Fund to the extent available to 

insure the timely payment of principal and interest on the insured obligations. FCSIC monitors and 

independently analyzes conditions in the general economy, capital markets, and agricultural and 

financial sectors to identify potential risks to the System and the Insurance Fund. FCSIC analyzes and 

evaluates the financial performance and condition of System institutions, maintains ongoing dialogue 

with FCA examiners, and reviews reports of examination. When necessary, the FCSIC Board of 

Directors authorizes special examinations at System institutions of concern. On a quarterly basis, FCSIC 

screens all System institutions against key performance criteria to identify institutions that may pose an 

insurance risk. 

Strategic Objectives

1. Monitor conditions within and external to the System in order to anticipate and identify risks to 

the Insurance Fund, and ensure those risks are appropriately reflected in the setting of insurance 

premiums and the Corporation’s financial statements. 

2. Enhance the use of analytical models and other risk management tools and processes to develop 

more insightful analysis on trends and risks, including System growth, funding needs, condition, 

performance, structural risks, and sensitivities, as well as ad hoc analysis on current topics. 

3. Leverage FCSIC’s independent risk analysis by proactively raising awareness of identified risks 

to the Board and FCA and working with FCA on policies and regulations to mitigate those risks. 

The means and strategies used to achieve these strategic objectives and the external factors that could 

affect their achievement are described below.
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Strategic Objective 1: Monitor conditions within and external to the System in order to anticipate 

and identify risks to the Insurance Fund, and ensure those risks are appropriately reflected in the 

setting of insurance premiums and the Corporation’s financial statements. 

Means & Strategies

FCSIC analyzes information from a variety of sources to monitor conditions in the general 

economy, capital markets, and agricultural and financial sectors that pose risk to the System, its 

investors, and the Insurance Fund. FCSIC regularly reviews supervisory information from the 

examinations conducted by FCA. FCSIC’s monitoring and analysis of System institutions is 

focused on the four insured System banks and High Impact Associations, which we define as 

associations where severe stress may have a meaningful impact on the condition of its 

supervisory bank. This information is used in the premium determination process to assess the 

risk that the Insurance Fund may be used in the next 12 months. Annual premium rates are 

established by FCSIC’s Board of Directors at the beginning of the year and reviewed and 

modified, as necessary, by the Board mid-year. Additionally, in accordance with the 

Corporation’s Policy Statement Concerning Allowance for Insurance Fund Losses, management 

assesses the need for an allowance at least quarterly using criteria specified in FCSIC’s 

Allowance for Loss procedure. FCSIC has the authority to conduct special examination activities 

for institutions if the Board of Directors considers it necessary. 

External Factors 

Projections for insurance risk are subject to considerable uncertainty arising from the economic 

outlook and conditions in the agricultural sector. Key risks include potential recession, the level 

of interest rates, the level of agricultural exports, commodity price volatility, input cost inflation,

farmland values and adverse weather and other environmental conditions. Other System risks 

include continued growth in insured obligations, bank capital levels, large association 

concentration risk, potential structural changes in the System, changes in government support 

programs, and operational risk from cybersecurity or the implementation of new technologies. 

Strategic Objective 2: Enhance the use of analytical models and other risk management tools and 

processes to develop more insightful analysis on trends and risks, including System growth, 

funding needs, condition, performance, structural risks, and sensitivities, as well as ad hoc 

analysis on current topics. 

Means & Strategies 

To effectively understand its risks, FCSIC needs to employ sophisticated analytics using the 

most current data to anticipate trends and identify new risk issues. In the current environment, 

new risks can manifest themselves very quickly. FCSIC uses a variety of analytical models and 

risk management tools and processes to identify the wide range of potential systemic risks to the 

System. FCSIC periodically reviews its allowance and Insurance Fund solvency procedures and 

models to make enhancements and identify different, richer ways of doing the analysis. For 

example, FCSIC develops new sensitivity cases for its DCAT model each year and uses the 

model to measure the impact of sensitivities or structural changes to the System. FCSIC also 

develops new, ad hoc analysis to examine new and current risk issues. FCSIC maintains ongoing 

contacts with other federal insurers and financial regulators to share information on emerging 
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risks and risk management best practices. As appropriate, FCSIC engages outside resources to 

support these efforts. 

Access to timely, accurate information is essential to effective risk management. The Farm 

Credit Act directs that FCSIC obtain information on System institutions from FCA. Access to 

information collected by FCA is a critical element of detecting the potential for Insurance Fund 

loss, minimizing duplication of effort, and reducing costs. FCSIC has access to robust data from 

FCA and tries to utilize that data to evaluate our insurance risk in creative ways that supplement 

rather than duplicate FCA analysis. 

External Factors 

As noted above, developing risks, particularly market or pathological events, can manifest 

themselves very quickly without time to develop appropriate measures or models. System data is 

generally not collected in real-time, and lags in data may result in FCSIC missing or 

misidentifying risks. 

Strategic Objective 3: Leverage FCSIC’s independent risk analysis by proactively raising 

awareness of identified risks to the Board and FCA and working with FCA on policies and 

regulations to mitigate those risks. 

Means & Strategies 

FCSIC’s ability to mitigate identified risks to the Insurance Fund largely comes from the 

credibility and persuasiveness of its independent risk analysis. The Corporation has relatively 

modest regulatory authority, and its authority to conduct special examinations of System 

institutions requires FCSIC to leverage FCA’s supervisory authority. Therefore, FCSIC focuses 

on working productively with FCA staff to mitigate risk to the Insurance Fund. FCSIC partners 

with FCA examination staff to explore institution specific risk issues, participates in joint FCAFCSIC working groups, and consults with FCA on proposed mergers, capital actions, and other 

System applications. When FCSIC identifies key systemic and structural risks to the Insurance 

Fund, it strives to drive efforts to manage those risks by raising awareness, advocating for 

solutions, and working with FCA policy and examination staff to develop mitigating regulatory, 

policy, and supervisory guidance recommendations. Maintaining excellent working relationships 

with FCA staff is critical to the success of this objective.

External Factors 

While closely allied, FCA is a different federal agency from FCSIC with different management, 

mission, and priorities. Mitigation of FCSIC’s insurance risk may not always align with the 

priorities and broader mandate of FCA. Risks to the Insurance Fund may manifest themselves 

too fast for joint efforts with FCA to be effective.

Program Area 3: Receivership, Conservatorship, and Assistance Readiness

Strategic Goal 5: Be prepared to act as Receiver or Conservator or to provide assistance if called 

upon.

The Corporation is required to serve as receiver or conservator of System banks and associations when 

appointed by FCA. Additionally, the FCSIC Board may provide assistance to one or more System 
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institutions to prevent the placement of an institution into receivership, restore an institution to normal 

operation, or stem financial contagion within the System. This goal requires that corporate readiness be 

maintained through periodic staff training, periodic review of potential strategies and procedures, and 

evaluation of potential resources available to ensure that sufficient qualified resources can be employed 

should the need arise. 

Strategic Objectives

1. Consistent with FCSIC’s efficient operating model, maintain readiness to act as receiver or 

conservator, or to provide assistance, focused on those activities and scenarios that are 

considered most likely and would require an immediate response. 

2. Ensure that System banks have adequate temporary liquidity in situations where external market 

factors make normal debt market access extremely doubtful.

3. Subject to the provisions of the Farm Credit Act, including the least-cost test, provide assistance

when appropriate to a System bank. 

4. If appointed as receiver or conservator of a System institution, ensure receiverships and 

conservatorships are managed to fulfill the purposes of the Farm Credit Act, protect creditors, 

and are terminated in an orderly and timely manner. 

The means and strategies used to achieve these strategic objectives and the external factors that could 

affect their achievement are described below.

Strategic Objective 1: Consistent with FCSIC’s efficient operating model, maintain readiness to 

act as receiver or conservator, or to provide assistance, focused on those activities and scenarios 

that are considered most likely and would require an immediate response. 

Means & Strategies

The System has not experienced a bank or association failure in more than 30 years, and the 

Corporation has not been called upon to provide liquidity or other financial assistance during its 

existence. This is largely attributable to effective oversight and the System structure that 

incentives stronger institutions to support troubled institutions. However, conditions of an 

individual institution or the System overall may change and require FCSIC to act in these 

capacities. The Corporation maintains its readiness to act as receiver or conservator, or to 

provide assistance within its efficient operating model. FCSIC prioritizes its efforts on those 

activities and scenarios that are considered most likely and would require an immediate response. 

FCSIC maintains readiness by planning and training for receivership, conservatorship, and 

financial assistance actions, reviewing and updating policies and procedures, maintaining 

relationships and formal agreements with other federal insurers (e.g., FDIC and NCUA) for 

ongoing training, support and sharing of best practices, and monitoring relevant legislation, 

regulations, and developments in banking and asset management. FCSIC maintains 

preparedness to hire competent staff and contractor resources quickly to meet receivership or 

conservatorship obligations. FCSIC periodically assesses its readiness and reviews stress 

scenarios to identify priorities for readiness enhancement. 

External Factors 

Economic, market, environmental, or other stresses may lead to institutions requesting assistance 

from FCSIC and a severe economic or agricultural downturn could lead to institutions failing or 
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being placed into conservatorship. In certain instances, these stresses may arise suddenly. 

Historically, System supervisory banks have provided support to troubled associations (and 

weaker institutions merged with stronger ones) without requiring FCSIC or the Insurance Fund. 

However, increased concentration in the System may make resolving troubled institutions within 

the System more challenging. Additionally, given the Corporation’s efficient operating model, 

FCSIC would need to rapidly engage outside resources and/or temporary hiring to effectively 

operate a receivership or conservatorship, which may be challenging if there is not sufficient lead 

time or qualified resources available. 

Strategic Objective 2: Ensure that Farm Credit System banks have adequate temporary liquidity 

in situations where external market factors make normal debt market access extremely doubtful.

Means & Strategies 

Working with System banks, the Funding Corporation, and FCA, FCSIC has implemented 

procedures for providing short-term financial assistance to System banks (through the Funding 

Corporation) to provide liquidity in situations where normal debt market access has become 

extremely doubtful and System banks will be unable to sell liquidity holdings without taking a 

material loss. FCSIC conducts training exercises with the System banks and the Funding 

Corporation on a biennial basis. In addition, in 2013 FCSIC entered into an agreement with the 

Federal Financing Bank (FFB) for a line of credit to increase FCSIC’s capacity (under specified 

terms and conditions) to provide assistance to System banks in exigent market circumstances that 

threaten the banks’ ability to pay maturing debt obligations. The FFB is a government 

corporation managed by the U.S. Department of Treasury that advances funding to eligible 

federal agencies. The agreement provides for a short-term revolving credit facility of up to $10 

billion. 

External Factors 

System liquidity may be affected by unforeseen external factors that make normal debt market 

access extremely doubtful. In addition, it is difficult to predict the causes or timing of such 

events with any degree of accuracy. A significant disruption of the debt markets may also affect 

the ability of institutions to generate liquidity through the sale of investment instruments held for 

that purpose. 

Strategic Objective 3: Subject to the provisions of the Farm Credit Act, including the least-cost 

test, provide assistance when appropriate to a System bank. 

Means & Strategies 

As specified in the Farm Credit Act, FCSIC, in its sole discretion and on such terms and 

conditions as the Board of Directors may prescribe, may make loans to, purchase the assets or 

securities of, assume the liabilities of, or make contributions to, a System institution. These 

strategies would be conducted in accordance with the Board Policy Statement Concerning 

Assistance. The Corporation is authorized to provide assistance to a troubled System institution 

to prevent default, restore it to normal operations, or to facilitate a merger or consolidation with 

one or more other System institutions. The Corporation may also provide assistance to reduce 

risk to the Insurance Fund when severe financial conditions threaten the stability of one or more 

banks or banks possessing significant financial resources. This includes the liquidity assistance 
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discussed above. All assistance must pass the statutory least-cost test to determine the least 

costly alternative to the Insurance Fund. In evaluating the need and form of assistance and 

making a least-cost determination, the Corporation would leverage its internal analysis, FCA 

examination reports, and, through its special examination authority, would collect any additional 

information necessary. For discretionary assistance provided to return an institution to viable 

self-sustaining operation, the Corporation must also evaluate the adequacy of the institution’s 

management and approve the continued service of any director or senior officer. In conjunction 

with any assistance, the Corporation would enter into an agreement with the System institution 

receiving assistance, and, in the case of an association, its supervisory bank, in order to reduce 

the risk to the Insurance Fund. The Corporation will use its examination authority to monitor 

compliance with the assistance agreement.

External Factors 

Economic, market, environmental, or other stresses may lead to institutions requesting assistance 

from FCSIC. In certain instances, these stresses may arise suddenly and be unrelated to the 

condition or practices of the System. Additionally, the nature of System assets and the 

interrelationship among System institutions add complexity to making a least-cost determination. 

Strategic Objective 4: If appointed as receiver or conservator of a System institution, ensure 

receiverships and conservatorships are managed to fulfill the purposes of the Farm Credit Act, 

protect creditors, and are terminated in an orderly and timely manner.

Means & Strategies 

Under the Farm Credit Act, FCSIC, in its receivership capacity, manages the assets of 

institutions placed into receivership by the FCA Board to preserve the asset values and dispose 

of the assets as quickly as possible, consistent with the policy objective of maximizing the net 

return on those assets while mitigating the potential for serious adverse effects to the rest of the 

System. The oversight and prompt termination of receiverships preserve value for secured 

creditors, including System banks and other receivership claimants, by reducing overhead and 

other holding costs. FCSIC’s authorities under the Act are intended to be functionally equivalent 

to the parallel authorities of the FDIC, which include the creation and operation of a bridge 

System bank. 

As conservator, FCSIC would operate the System institution on a temporary basis until a final 

resolution is determined. Final resolution ranges from return to normal operations to a liquidating 

receivership. During conservatorship, the institution remains an operating System institution 

subject to FCA oversight. FCSIC as conservator would have authority to replace the institution’s 

board and management.

External Factors 

A severe economic or agricultural downturn could lead to institution failures and could affect the 

pace at which FCSIC is able to liquidate the receivership estate assets and terminate 

receiverships. Economic and other factors, such as extended litigation and problems resolving 

environmentally tainted receivership properties, might also delay termination of a receivership or 

conservatorship. Given the Corporation’s efficient operating model, FCSIC would need to 

rapidly engage outside resources and/or hire temporary workers to effectively operate a 
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receivership or conservatorship. If there is not sufficient lead time or qualified resources 

available, there could be material negative consequences, including the loss of recovery value, 

the inability to stabilize an institution in conservatorship, or contagion to other System 

institutions.
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APPENDIX A: FCSIC’S STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS

Introduction

FCSIC is subject to the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), as 

modified by the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010. In accordance with the requirements of these 

statutes, FCSIC reviews and updates its Strategic Plan every four years, publishes Annual Performance 

Plans and Performance Reports, and conducts program evaluations to assess whether the Corporation’s 

programs are achieving their stated purposes. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in its 

Circular A-11, has issued implementing requirements for GPRA to the federal government. FCSIC has 

focused on complying with GPRA and OMB guidelines by adopting planning and reporting practices 

that recognize the Corporation’s business model and streamlined staffing structure.

Annual Performance Plan and Report

FCSIC’s Strategic Plan is implemented through annual performance plans. The annual plans identify our 

performance goals, indicators, and targets for each strategic objective. The Corporation submits an 

annual report to Congress that compares actual performance to the annual performance goals for the 

prior year. This report is also made available to FCSIC stakeholders and the public through FCSIC’s 

website.

The Corporation’s long-term strategic goals and objectives are expressed in outcome terms, and selected 

outcome measures are included in the Corporation’s annual performance plans. However, many of the 

performance indicators in these annual plans are process measures (for example, regularly reporting on 

insurance risk). It is often difficult to establish a direct causal relationship between the Corporation’s 

activities and the outcomes experienced. FCSIC continues to work to improve its performance measures. 

Corporate Planning and Performance Management Process

FCSIC establishes performance goals annually through its planning and budgeting process. In 

formulating these performance goals, the Corporation considers the external economic environment, the 

condition of the agricultural industry (including potential risks), the condition of the System, projected 

workload requirements, and other corporate priorities. FCSIC plans may also be influenced by the 

results of program evaluations and management studies, prior-year performance results, and other 

factors. Based on this information, planning guidance is established by senior management, with input 

from program personnel. 

After annual performance goals are established, a proposed annual corporate operating budget is 

developed, taking into account the financial, human capital, technological, and other resources required 

to accomplish FCSIC’s core mission responsibilities and other annual performance goals. The Board of 

Directors approves the budget and the Annual Performance Plan. 

Annual performance goals are communicated to employees. Staff prepares progress reports and senior 

management conducts performance reviews quarterly. The results of the reviews are provided to the 

FCSIC Board of Directors quarterly. 
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Stakeholder Consultation 

During 2022-23, FCSIC sought and received informal input from various stakeholders and interested 

parties on issues affecting FCSIC’s insurance program. FCSIC requested formal comment from 

stakeholders and the public on a draft of this strategic plan through a posting on FCSIC’s website for a 

21-day period. 

Program Evaluations 

Program evaluations are interdivisional, collaborative efforts, and involve management and staff from 

all affected divisions. Such participation is critical to fully understanding the program being evaluated. It 

also gives all staff a stake in the process. Division directors use the results of the program evaluations to 

assure the Chief Operating Officer and Chairman that operations are effective and efficient, financial 

data and reporting are reliable, laws and regulations are followed, and internal controls are adequate.

These results are also considered in strategic planning for FCSIC. During the period covered by this 

Strategic Plan, FCSIC will continue to perform risk-based reviews in each strategic area of the 

Corporation through the annual Federal Management Financial Integrity Act review process.