We contribute to the strength and future of the agriculture and food industry.
To enhance rural Canada by providing specialized business and financial services and products to farming operations. These include family farms and small to medium farm-related businesses.
2019-20 Highlights
Serving close to 100,000 customers
FCC provides financing to primary production, agribusiness and agri-food customers across Canada.
Small and medium operations
90% of farms and 75% of agri-business and food processors we finance are small to medium operations.
Empowering the next generation
We supported young farmers and entrepreneurs, lending $3.92 billion through various loan products and offering the FCC Young Farmer Summit event series.
Supporting women in agriculture
We approved 924 Women Entrepreneur Loan applications, totalling over $674 million, exceeding our three-year $500-million target.
Indigenous agriculture
We signed a Memorandum of Understanding with File Hills Qu’Appelle Developments in Saskatchewan to address food insecurity and help supply traditional herbal medicines to community members.
Mental wellness
We updated Rooted in Strength, a mental health publication for agriculture, and distributed it to 169,845 mailboxes in Canada.
Free business resources
We received 1,442,198 views or interactions with FCC online knowledge offerings.
