News & Highlights

November 29, 2021

Groundbreaking ceremony held for new First South Farm Credit building in Ozark, Alabama

First South Farm Credit in Ozark, Alabama, held a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, Nov. 2, to announce its plans to build a new office building in the city. The existing branch on South Union Avenue will eventually move to the new location on Highway 231 South. “Ozark has served our members well...

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November 23, 2021

Louisiana native finds a calling to embrace sugarcane harvesting

When Kassi Berard Leger graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and began a sales career, she found herself still searching for a purpose. This longing brought her back to her roots in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, where her father farmed sugarcane for 47 years. Growing up working on the...

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November 03, 2021

First South Farm Credit Welcomes Lee Thorne as its new General Counsel

Ridgeland, MS - First South Farm Credit, the largest member-owned land and agricultural financing cooperative in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, proudly announces that Lee Thorne has joined First South as General Counsel. As General Counsel for First South, Lee provides legal guidance, advises...

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October 07, 2021

Sustaining a strong relationship with a third-generation farmer

Jarred Casiday is a third-generation farmer from Crowville, La., who understands the challenges farmers face each day. For 15 years, he’s run a 2,200-acre corn and soybean farm in Franklin Parish – one that his father and grandfather ran before him. “The hardest part about farming is all the...

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July 23, 2021

2 Brothers Whitetails: The Growth of a Unique Farming Operation in Louisiana

A First South Farm Credit member, Brandon Bollinger, teamed up with his brother to build one of the most unique businesses in south Louisiana. The pair of brothers got lost on back roads during a deer hunting trip to Windthorst, Texas and stumbled upon a unique farming operation called VTex...

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