Financial institutions to donate $20,000 to Second Harvest of South Georgia
Donation to Second Harvest of South Georgia to help with hurricane relief, holiday food supply
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From Staff Reports
THOMASVILLE — AgGeorgia Farm Credit, Southwest Georgia Farm Credit and CoBank have announced they will donate $20,000 to Second Harvest of South Georgia, a regional hunger relief organization and Georgia food bank.
“We’re thankful to CoBank for matching our gifts and for recognizing that our communities need assistance following the devastation caused by Hurricane Michael,” Allen Corbin, relationship manager at Southwest Georgia Farm Credit’s Thomasville office, said in a press release. “Agriculture plays such a vital role in communities throughout southwest Georgia that this donation is one small gesture we can make to help our small towns heal.”
CoBank provides loans, leases, expert financing and other financial services to agricultural business as well as rural power, water and communications providers across the country. Officials said the cooperative bank also provides wholesale loans and other financial services to associations affiliated with Farm Credit that serve more than 70,000 farmers, ranchers and other rural borrowers in 23 states.
“We’re hopeful that this gift will help keep pantries full over the holidays and bring some much needed joy to families in our area,” Corey Cottle, director of marketing at AgGeorgia Farm Credit, said. “We are humbled to be able to make this gift and thankful to CoBank for recognizing the need in our communities.”
The AgGeorgia Farm Credit headquarters is in Perry, and the Southwest Georgia Farm Credit headquarters is in Bainbridge. The associations offer services such as lending and expert financial services to farmers, farm business, land and rural property owners.
CoBank, AgGeorgia Farm Credit and Southwest Georgia Farm Credit are part of the Farm Credit System dedicated to agricultural and rural communities.
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