Smith succeeds Jeffery Hall of Kentucky, who President Donald Trump this week named CEO of the Farm Credit Administration, an independent federal agency that regulates the Farm Credit System.

Richard Schartner’s lender in that 2005 sale, the Farm Credit Administration, had required he put up his other properties as additional collateral when he bought the Bald Hill Nursery property.

Jeffery Hall will continue to chair the Farm Credit Administration. He is an Obama appointee and despite his term expiring in 2018, continues to serve in the absence of a replacement. For more ...

President Donald Trump named Jeffery Hall to serve as chairman and CEO of the Farm Credit Administration, succeeding Vincent Logan, who has served as FCA board chairman and CEO since Oct. 21 ...

With egg prices soaring, the Trump administration is planning a new strategy for fighting bird flu that stresses vaccinations ...

A rapid-fire array of directives by the Trump administration have left farmers and businesses in rural America reeling.

This was a nebulous mandate, and the Farm Credit Administration, the federal agency that regulates Farm Credit associations, determined each institution could develop its own so-called YBS programs ...

He succeeds Jeffery Hall, who served as chairman of the FCSIC board of directors from November 2016 until he was designated board chairman and CEO of the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) on Jan. 20.

With farm-state Republicans expecting federal help from the fund, known as the Commodity Credit Corporation, to offset any trade-war impacts on their constituents, Democrats could make their own ...

The Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is hurting a variety of U.S.