Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp. is a stockholder-owned, federally chartered corporation. The company provides a secondary market for agricultural real estate and rural housing mortgage loans, rural utilities loans, and loans guaranteed by the United States Department of Agriculture. It combines private capital and public sponsorship to serve a public purpose. The company operates through the following segments: Farm and Ranch, USDA Guarantees and Rural Utilities. The Farm and Ranch segment engages in the mortgage loans secured by first liens on agricultural real estate, including part-time farms and rural housing. The USDA Guarantees segment provides agricultural and rural development loans guaranteed by the United States Department of Agriculture. The Rural Utilities segment engages in the business of loans made by lenders organized as cooperatives to finance electrification and telecommunications systems in rural areas. It provides liquidity and lending capacity to agricultural a