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Farm Credit East, ACA, the Northeast’s largest agricultural lending cooperative, announced its distribution of a record $100 million in combined patronage dividends to more than 11,000 farm, fishing and forestry business owners and operators across the Northeast.

The Farm Credit Northeast AgEnhancement Program, a joint effort of Farm Credit East and CoBank, recently provided over $60,000 in grant funding to 17 organizations to assist their efforts to support young and beginning farmer initiatives, encourage youth leadership development, promote diversity equity and inclusion and advance northeast agriculture, forestry and commercial fishing.

2021 was a remarkable year for the nursery, sod and greenhouse industries. After initial disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, customer demand for lawn and garden products surged, and sales were generally up overall for the green industry. Dr. Charlie Hall, of Texas A&M University, gave an overview of the Green Industry outlook for 2022.

Farm Credit East hosted a webinar on Wednesday, February 9, that provided a recap of 2021 corn and soybean markets, as well as a look forward to 2022 markets.