Farm Credit Bank of Texas is a cooperatively owned wholesale bank headquartered in Austin, Texas, and part of the nationwide Farm Credit System established by Congress in 1916. The bank provides funding, credit expertise, and operational support to affiliated retail lending cooperatives that serve farmers, ranchers, agribusinesses, rural utilities, and rural homeowners across Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico. Its mission is to support rural communities and agriculture with reliable, consistent credit and financial services.
Agricultural finance, rural economic development, farm credit and lending regulation, rural infrastructure financing, capital markets access for agricultural borrowers, and federal oversight of the Farm Credit System
Raises capital by issuing debt securities in U.S. money markets through the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation; owned by and returns earnings to affiliated customer-owned lending cooperatives
Farm Credit System, Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation, Farm Credit Council, affiliated retail Farm Credit associations in the Texas Farm Credit District
Cooperative financial institution (wholesale bank within the Farm Credit System)
