Will Rabobank shadow, change Farm Credit's future?

When ABA Banking Journal devot its November 2003 overspread to a profile article concerning Farm Credit Services of America, there was no expectation that the very great midwestern arm of the Farm Credit combination of parts to form a whole would dominate the coverage in the 2004 agricultural banking report as well.

But surprise has been the individual common element running through the propos takeover through Rabobank of FCS of America, which work fors Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. For individual thing, the farmer-borrower-stockholders of FC of America generally not at any time thought of their shares as being a source of a healthy windfall. For another, bankers who already