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Farm Credit score of the Virginias has introduced longtime worker and Regional Gross sales and Lending Supervisor Patti Craun would assume a newly established dairy specialist function.

In her new place, Craun will work immediately with Farm Credit score dairy producers as they navigate the continued trade downturn.

The place was established to ship on Farm Credit score’s mission to offer assist for agriculture by means of good instances and unhealthy. The dairy trade continues to face challenges because of market volatility and different limiting components. Craun’s 30-year tenure at Farm Credit score of the Virginias, coupled along with her huge and utilized expertise within the dairy trade, positions her to lend specialised session to dairy farmers, and function an asset and trusted associate.

Relating to her new function, Craun stated, “I’m excited to work immediately with dairy producers once more. I stay up for serving as a useful resource to dairymen all through our footprint as they work by means of what continues to be a difficult dairy economic system.”

“Farm Credit score has a dedication to the dairy trade that’s greater than 100 years previous. As we thought of how finest to assist our dairy producers, we realized that having an trade professional work one-on-one with producers as a trusted advisor would make an actual distinction of their operations,” stated Farm Credit score of the Virginias CEO Brad Cornelius.

Cornelius continued, “Patti was raised on a dairy farm and has great ardour for the trade. That keenness, mixed along with her 30 years of lending expertise, made her the perfect option to function our dairy specialist.”

Sidney Rabon will assume the function of regional gross sales and lending supervisor. Rabon brings almost 30 years of working data and expertise within the banking trade to his new function and the Shenandoah Valley. Over the course of his profession, Rabon has discovered success working alongside agricultural constituents, together with row-crop farmers, poultry and swine growers, timbermen and lumberyards, as wells as gear sellers, offering him the experience to serve Shenandoah Valley customer-owners properly. Rabon is within the technique of relocating to the Harrisonburg space.

Relating to his new function, Rabon stated, “I’ve significantly loved working alongside our gross sales and assist workers within the better Roanoke space over the previous few years. Throughout my time there, we made nice strides in enterprise growth and most significantly, higher serving our customer-owners. I stay up for doing the identical with the excellent workers within the Harrisonburg, Verona and Lexington department workplaces. I’m additionally keen to satisfy our clients and see their operations.”

Moreover, longtime Farm Credit score of the Virginias worker and Weyers Cave native, Adam Shiflett, transitioned right into a newly established enterprise growth officer function. In his new place, Shiflett will drive enterprise growth within the valley by monitoring trade tendencies, implementing gross sales methods and advising native public relations.

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