American AgCredit is born
California regroups and expands
Our footprint grows
The National Farm Loan Association (NFLA) of Santa
Founding the system
American AgCredit is named
The Midwest restructures
Rosa is founded.
Merging with Mountain Plains
On January 1, 2000 Pacific Coast Farm Credit, ACA consolidates with Central Valley, PCA. Later in June the name of the company is changed to American AgCredit, ACA.
Merging with Heartland
The Ninth District Production Credit Association reorganizes into six separate
A merger between North Coast Farm Credit
American AgCredit’s merger with Farm
Board minutes from October 1916
The National Farm Loan Association (NFLA)
PCAs and eight FLBAs — Creative Farm
Services, ACA and Pacific Coast PCA/FLCA
Credit of the Heartland, ACA marks the first
document the initial meeting establishment
of Santa Rosa merges with NFLA of Napa,
Credit Services of Central Kansas and Farm
creates Pacific Coast Farm Credit Services,
of the Association.
NFLA of Marin, and NFLA of Sonoma.
Credit Services of the Mountain Plains.
ACA. Sierra-Bay FLCA is established.
1948
1916
American AgCredit
American AgCredit
American AgCredit
1991
American AgCredit
1992
2000
American AgCredit
merger of two non-contiguous Associations
American AgCredit, ACA merges with
in two districts.
Farm Credit Services of the Mountain Plains
2009 American AgCredit
2016 American AgCredit
President Woodrow Wilson signs legislation creating the Federal Land Bank System. The first loan is made less than a year later.
1916 Farm Credit
1917 Farm Credit
1933 Farm Credit
The first Farm Credit loan is made to a farmer-stockman A.L. Stockwell through Pawnee County National Farm Loan Association of Larned KS, now known as American Ag Credit.
1953 Farm Credit
An independent path
The first loan
The Farm Credit Act
1980
1987
Farm Credit
Farm Credit
Expanding authority
Farm Credit Act of 1987
Congress amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971, allowing greater participation in loans and agreements to share loans, and expanding the definition of agricultural operations to include timber and aquaculture.
1999
2016
Farm Credit
Farm Credit
Restructuring for the future
Farm Credit 100
Addressing an extended farm crisis, the Agricultural Credit Act provides $4 billion in
In the midst of a Great Depression, the
Farm Credit marks its centennial and looks
federal financial assistance and requires the
The “Parent ACA” arrangement is developed,
ahead to continuing providing the financial
Farm Credit Act of 1933, helping save
The Farm Credit Act of 1953 makes the
System to reorganize — consolidating 36
allowing the ACA to become a holding
underpinning of U.S. agriculture and rural
countless American farms. The Act is
Farm Credit Administration an agency of
districts into 12 entities. The act also authorizes
company for FLCA and PCA organizations —
America. Fresh Perspectives identifies 100
designed to provide short- intermediate- and
the executive branch and sets the System
ACAs and FLCAs to have direct long-term
setting the pattern for subsequent mergers at
people with the leadership skills and vision
long-term loans for agricultural purposes.
on a path towards independence.
lending authority.
the association leve.
to forge the future of agriculture.
System is rescued and expanded via the