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June 2010   
In This Issue
A Chat With The Chief
4-H Clubs Awarded Farm Credit Community Improvement Grants
Business Results - 1st Quarter 2010
Customer Connection
Farm Credit Delivers Electronic Press Area for FFA Convention
Staff In The Spotlight
Welcome Aboard
FCS Team Milestones
FCS Snapshots
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A Chat With The Chief
"American farm families also produce the valuable commodity of children who are raised with values that set them outside the norm of our society."
 
by Dave Owens, President & CEO
 
Dave Owens American agriculture is the envy of the world. United States producers provide an abundance of food, feed, and fiber for both domestic and international consumption. NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, and other trade initiatives have allowed this abundance to be distributed around the world. . .   Read More. . .
4-H Clubs Awarded
Farm Credit Community Improvement Grants
 4-H Healthy Communities
   
Illinois 4-H members are putting the 4-H pledge of using their "hands for larger service" into action by completing 27 different community improvement initiatives throughout the State of Illinois.    

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  Association Business Results - 1st Quarter 2010

 
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Customer Connection:  Meet Paul Compton, of Homer IL, the 2009 Champaign County Farm Leader of the Year
 
Paul and Bonnie Compton"There is tremendous opportunity in the future of agriculture. As our world population continues to grow, we will have a significant challenge and opportunity to keep people fed. We will need to rely and science and technology even more for increased productivity on fewer and less desirable acres."
  
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Farm Credit Delivers Electronic Press Area for FFA Convention 
 2010 FFA Officers
 
News releases and digital photographs were delivered electronically to media 
at the Illinois FFA Convention held in Springfield at the Prairie Capital
Convention Center June 8-10.                    Read More...
Staff In The Spotlight:  Jack Campion 
 Meet A Farm Credit team member in his 30th year with FCS
 
"Learn the fundamentals and keep an open mind. There is almost always more than one way to do things."
 
Jack CampionRaised the middle of seven children on a family grain and livestock farm, Jack Campion was a longtime member of the Saratoga Leadaways 4-H Club in Marshall County. Jack earned a bachelor's degree in agriculture industries at the University of Illinois. He launched his FCS career right after graduating from college in the Gibson City branch office.

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Welcome Aboard!
Taryn Birch Kirk Builta Angi Carter Chuck Foran Mark Heimann
Mackenzie Kern Corey McTaggart Shaun Murray Shanda Shelton             
Meet the newest members of the staff team who joined Farm Credit Services of Illinois since March 15, 2010.     Read More . . .
FCS Team Milestones
We salute these employees who reached milestones in their years of Farm Credit service between March 16, 2010 and June 30, 2010:
 
30 YEARS:
  • Brian Funk, Mahomet Credit Services
  • Gary Stephenson, Mahomet Commercial Lending
  • Brian Wright, Decatur Branch Lending

    15 YEARS:
  • Linda Valette, Benton Branch Lending

    10 YEARS:
  • Nancy Brinkley, Harrisburg Branch Crop Insurance
  • Bob Schimmel, Mahomet Branch Lending
  • Matt St. Ledger, Albion Branch Lending

    5 YEARS:
  • Layna Somers, Mahomet Loan Accounting
  • FCS Snapshots - Check Out Recent Photo Albums on Facebook
    There's been a lot going on at Farm Credit, and we've been capturing it all digitally. Visit our Facebook page (www.fcsillinois.com/facebook) and view photo albums for the following:
    Come Wine With Us - Chamber Event Hosted by Farm Credit in Mahomet, IL
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