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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...

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...

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...

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...

Over the past thirty-five years, Michele Simoneaux has been with First South through all of its seasons. Through association name changes and farm credit restructurings, she has seen it all. Yet there is one thing that has never changed, the family atmosphere. She has trained and nurtured the...