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Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, known as Farmer Mac, helps lenders free up money to finance farms, agribusinesses and rural infrastructure. It buys eligible loans and loan-backed securities from financial institutions, allowing them to make further loans. Its infrastructure business supports rural power, broadband and renewable energy. Through AgVantage securities, it also lends to institutions that pledge eligible loans as collateral.
Farmer Mac raises most of the money for these purchases by issuing debt in public capital markets. Most of its revenue comes from interest on the assets it owns, less its funding costs. Lenders also pay it to guarantee loan-backed securities or commit to buying eligible loans in the future. The business therefore depends on lenders’ financing needs, borrowers’ repayments and access to competitively priced debt funding.
A few institutions supply a substantial share of its business. CFC, MetLife and Rabo AgriFinance account for most outstanding AgVantage securities, while infrastructure transactions are concentrated with a small number of institutions. Farmer Mac is a federally chartered, shareholder-owned government-sponsored enterprise, but its debt and guarantees are not backed by the United States’ full faith and credit. Its charter restricts eligible loan types and some loan sizes, and it operates under Farm Credit Administration oversight.
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Farmer Mac’s results hinge on agricultural and rural-infrastructure credit demand and wholesale funding spreads: watch funding customers CFC and Rabo AgriFinance, and CoBank, a significant loan supplier absent from this list.
MetLife is a substantial agricultural-finance customer of Farmer Mac: the insurer and asset manager raises wholesale funding by issuing securities that Farmer Mac holds, with $2.05 billion of these AgVantage securities outstanding at December 31, 2025. MetLife’s need for that funding, and its price and availability, help determine the volume of this business for Farmer Mac.
Zions supplies agricultural mortgage loans for Farmer Mac to buy, linking Farmer Mac’s loan purchases to this bank serving primarily 11 Western states; purchases from Zions totaled $148.1 million in 2025. Zions keeps servicing the loans for fees, so its agricultural loan sales to Farmer Mac are the business to watch, rather than its overall banking revenue.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
Farmer Mac’s interest-rate exposure matters because it borrows to fund farm and rural-infrastructure loans and securities, so rate changes can alter its funding costs and the spread it earns.
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If it comes in above expectations
Higher rates can make Farmer Mac’s new debt and refinancing more costly, squeezing the spread on loans and securities it funds; borrowers paying down loans more slowly may also leave the company needing to refinance debt at higher rates.
If it comes in below expectations
Lower rates can make Farmer Mac’s new debt and refinancing cheaper, but may also prompt borrowers to repay loans sooner, leaving the company to reinvest at lower yields while some funding costs remain.
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Farmer Mac’s report will show whether interest and fees from its growing agricultural and rural-infrastructure business are outpacing funding costs and credit-loss provisions.
Read net interest income and guarantee and commitment fees alongside credit-loss provisions and funding costs. Rising interest and fee income without a matching jump in provisions means new loans and guarantees are earning enough to cover funding and credit costs; weaker income or higher provisions that absorb the gain means business growth is not yet translating into sturdier earnings.
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MetLife’s report will show whether it continues to raise wholesale funding through AgVantage securities held by Farmer Mac, sustaining this business between the two companies.
Compare MetLife’s AgVantage issuance and maturities with the related securities Farmer Mac holds. Continued issuance with holdings steady or rising would show this funding arrangement still supplies Farmer Mac with assets and interest income; less issuance without replacement of maturing securities would point to shrinking business with this counterparty, not necessarily with other customers.
