Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp 10-Q 9-30-2006


As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
November 9, 2006 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 

 
FORM 10-Q

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2006

Commission File Number 0-17440

FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

         
 
Federally chartered instrumentality of the United States 
 
52-1578738
 
 
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
 
(I.R.S. employer identification number)
 
 
 
1133 Twenty-First Street, N.W., Suite 600
Washington, D.C.
 
20036
 
 
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
(Zip code)
 
         

(202) 872-7700
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
Yes T
No £

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
Large accelerated filer £
Accelerated filer T
Non-accelerated filer £

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
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No T

As of November 1, 2006, the registrant had 1,030,780 shares of Class A Voting Common Stock, 500,301 shares of Class B Voting Common Stock and 9,061,770 shares of Class C Non-Voting Common Stock outstanding.



PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1.
Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

The following interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (“Farmer Mac” or the “Corporation”) have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). These interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all normal and recurring adjustments that are, in the opinion of management, necessary to present a fair statement of the financial condition and the results of operations and cash flows of Farmer Mac for the interim periods presented. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in annual consolidated financial statements have been condensed or omitted as permitted by SEC rules and regulations. The December 31, 2005 consolidated balance sheet presented in this report has been derived from the Corporation’s audited 2005 restated consolidated financial statements. Management believes that the disclosures are adequate to present fairly the condensed consolidated financial position, condensed consolidated results of operations and condensed consolidated cash flows as of the dates and for the periods presented. These interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited 2005 consolidated financial statements of Farmer Mac included in the Corporation’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005. Results for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of those that may be expected for the fiscal year.

The following information concerning Farmer Mac’s interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements is included in this report beginning on the pages listed below:

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005 (as restated)
 
3
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2006 and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005 (as restated)
 
4
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and nine months ended September 30, 2005 (as restated)
 
5
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (as restated)
 
6

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FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(unaudited)
(in thousands, except share data)
 
   
September 30,
 
December 31,
 
   
2006
 
2005
 
       
(As Restated)*
 
Assets:
         
Cash and cash equivalents
 
$
804,602
 
$
458,852
 
Investment securities
   
1,896,260
   
1,621,941
 
Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
   
1,315,801
   
1,330,976
 
Loans held for sale
   
63,981
   
41,956
 
Loans held for investment
   
706,231
   
762,436
 
Allowance for loan losses
   
(2,209
)
 
(4,876
)
Loan-s held for investment, net
   
704,022
   
757,560
 
Real estate owned
   
1,039
   
3,532
 
Financial derivatives
   
9,050
   
8,719
 
Interest receivable
   
52,344
   
67,509
 
Guarantee and commitment fees receivable
   
34,988
   
22,170
 
Deferred tax asset, net
   
5,006
   
3,223
 
Prepaid expenses and other assets
   
5,607
   
25,007
 
Total Assets
 
$
4,892,700
 
$
4,341,445
 
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity:
             
Liabilities:
             
Notes payable:
             
Due within one year
 
$
3,366,472
 
$
2,587,704
 
Due after one year
   
1,187,827
   
1,406,527
 
Total notes payable
   
4,554,299
   
3,994,231
 
               
Financial derivatives
   
24,402
   
29,162
 
Accrued interest payable
   
25,444
   
29,250
 
Guarantee and commitment obligation
   
31,109
   
17,625
 
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
   
9,730
   
21,371
 
Reserve for losses
   
2,875
   
3,777
 
Total Liabilities
   
4,647,859
   
4,095,416
 
Stockholders' Equity:
             
Preferred stock:
             
Series A, stated at redemption/liquidation value, $50 per share,700,000 shares authorized, issued and outstanding
   
35,000
   
35,000
 
Common stock:
             
Class A Voting, $1 par value, no mazimum authorization, 1,030,780 shares issued and outstanding
   
1,031
   
1,031
 
Class B Voting, $1 par value, no maximum authorization, 500,301 shares issued and outstanding
   
500
   
500
 
Class C Non-Voting, $1 par value, no maximum authorization, 9,083,258 and 9,559,554 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, respectively
   
9,083
   
9,560
 
Additional paid-in capital
   
83,730
   
83,058
 
Accumulated other comprehensive income
   
7,838
   
15,247
 
Retained earnings
   
107,659
   
101,633
 
Total Stockholders' Equity
   
244,841
   
246,029
 
               
Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity
 
$
4,892,700
 
$
4,341,445
 
 
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

*
See Note 6 to the condensed consolidated financial statements

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FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(unaudited)
(in thousands, except per share amounts)


   
Three Months Ended
 
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30,
2006
 
September 30,
2005
 
September 30,
2006
 
September 30,
2005
 
       
(As Restated)*
     
(As Restated)*
 
Interest income
                 
Investments and cash equivalents
 
$
35,153
 
$
19,888
 
$
92,148
 
$
47,241
 
Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
   
18,702
   
17,680
   
55,692
   
54,679
 
Loans
   
12,092
   
11,968
   
35,322
   
35,558
 
Total interest income
   
65,947
   
49,536
   
183,162
   
137,478
 
                           
Total interest expense
   
56,840
   
38,028
   
153,310
   
99,147
 
                           
Net interest income
   
9,107
   
11,508
   
29,852
   
38,331
 
Recovery/(provision) for loan losses
   
525
   
(2,465
)
 
2,132
   
(1,678
)
Net interest income after recovery/(provision)for loan losses
   
9,632
   
9,043
   
31,984
   
36,653
 
                           
Non-interest income/(loss)
                         
Guarantee and commitment fees
   
5,548
   
4,844
   
15,885
   
14,689
 
(Loss)/gains on financial derivatives and trading assets
   
(20,320
)
 
12,009
   
1,285
   
7,254
 
Gains on the sale of real estate owned
   
-
   
114
   
514
   
33
 
Representation and warranty claims income
   
-
   
-
   
718
   
79
 
Other income
   
846
   
926
   
1,073
   
1,671
 
Non-interest income/(loss)
   
(13,926
)
 
17,893
   
19,475
   
23,726
 
                           
Non-interest expense
                         
Compensation and employee benefits
   
3,185
   
2,211
   
8,762
   
5,886
 
General and administrative
   
2,357
   
2,554
   
7,689
   
6,817
 
Regulatory fees
   
588
   
576
   
1,763
   
1,728
 
Real estate owned operating costs, net
   
(11
)
 
(10
)
 
126
   
27
 
Provision/(recovery) for losses
   
(643
)
 
(8,081
)
 
(747
)
 
(8,272
)
Non-interest expense/(recovery)
   
5,476
   
(2,750
)
 
17,593
   
6,186
 
                           
(Loss)/income before income taxes
   
(9,770
)
 
29,686
   
33,866
   
54,193
 
                           
Income tax (benefit)/expense
   
(4,072
)
 
9,778
   
9,975
   
17,343
 
Net (loss)/income
   
(5,698
)
 
19,908
   
23,891
   
36,850
 
Preferred stock dividends
   
(560
)
 
(560
)
 
(1,680
)
 
(1,680
)
Net (loss)/income available to common stockholders
 
$
(6,258
)
$
19,348
 
$
22,211
 
$
35,170
 
                           
Earnings per common share:
                         
Basic earnings/(loss) per common share
 
$
(0.58
)
$
1.73
 
$
2.03
 
$
3.08
 
Diluted earnings/(loss) per common share
 
$
(0.58
)
$
1.70
 
$
1.98
 
$
3.05
 
Common stock dividends per common share
 
$
0.10
 
$
0.10
 
$
0.30
 
$
0.30
 
 
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
*
See Note 6 to the condensed consolidated financial statements

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FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(unaudited, in thousands)
   
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30, 2006
 
September 30, 2005
 
       
(As Restated)*
 
Cash flows from operating activities:
         
Net income
 
$
23,891
 
$
36,850
 
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities:
             
Net (accretion)/amortization of investment premiums and discounts
   
(2,279
)
 
2,040
 
Net amortization of debt premiums, discounts and issuance costs
   
95,071
   
44,126
 
Proceeds from repayment of trading investment securities
   
1,406
   
2,148
 
Purchases of loans held for sale
   
(42,098
)
 
(78,093
)
Proceeds from repayment of loans held for sale
   
6,578
   
9,391
 
Net change in fair value of trading securities and financial derivatives
   
(5,101
)
 
(20,428
)
Amortization of SFAS 133 transition adjustment on financial derivatives
   
429
   
545
 
Gains on the sale of real estate owned
   
(514
)
 
(33
)
Total (recovery)/provision for losses
   
(2,878
)
 
(6,594
)
Deferred income taxes
   
2,190
   
(9,293
)
Stock-based compensation expense
   
1,693
   
-
 
Decrease in interest receivable
   
15,165
   
12,894
 
Decrease/(increase) in guarantee and commitment fees receivable
   
(12,818
)
 
1,058
 
Decrease in other assets
   
30,304
   
19,179
 
Increase in accrued interest payable
   
(3,806
)
 
(258
)
Decrease in other liabilities
   
(13,347
)
 
(14,823
)
Net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities
   
93,886
   
(1,291
)
               
Cash flows from investing activities:
             
Purchases of available-for-sale investment securities
   
(2,744,374
)
 
(1,787,240
)
Purchases of Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities and AgVantage Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
   
(186,416
)
 
(149,547
)
Purchases of loans held for investment
   
(32,529
)
 
(650
)
Purchases of defaulted loans
   
(5,693
)
 
(11,022
)
Proceeds from repayment of investment securities
   
2,478,819
   
1,237,548
 
Proceeds from repayment of Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
   
185,433
   
191,363
 
Proceeds from repayment of loans
   
105,442
   
118,999
 
Proceeds from sale of loans and Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
   
3,168
   
24,073
 
Proceeds from sale of real estate owned
   
2,819
   
2,882
 
Net cash used in investing activities
   
(193,331
)
 
(373,594
)
               
Cash flows from financing activities:
             
Proceeds from issuance of discount notes
   
64,442,608
   
34,381,698
 
Proceeds from issuance of medium-term notes
   
375,782
   
767,643
 
Payments to redeem discount notes
   
(64,161,392
)
 
(34,242,221
)
Payments to redeem medium-term notes
   
(192,000
)
 
(505,240
)
Tax benefit from tax deductions in excess of compensation cost recognized
   
481
   
-
 
Proceeds from common stock issuance
   
4,051
   
836
 
Purchases of common stock
   
(19,378
)
 
(15,682
)
Dividends paid
   
(4,957
)
 
(5,092
)
Net cash provided by financing activities
   
445,195
   
381,942
 
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents
   
345,750
   
7,057
 
               
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
   
458,852
   
430,504
 
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
 
$
804,602
 
$
437,561
 
 
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
*
See Note 6 to the condensed consolidated financial statements

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(AS RESTATED)
(unaudited)

Note 1.
Accounting Policies

 
(a)
Cash and Cash Equivalents

Farmer Mac considers highly liquid investment securities with maturities of three months or less at the time of purchase to be cash equivalents. Changes in the balance of cash and cash equivalents are reported in the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows. The following table sets forth information regarding certain cash and non-cash transactions for the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2005.

   
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30, 2006
 
September 30, 2005
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Cash paid for:
         
Interest
 
$
64,978
 
$
51,352
 
Income taxes
   
7,500
   
8,200
 
Non-cash activity:
             
Real estate owned acquired through foreclosure
   
-
   
980
 
Loans acquired and securitized as Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
   
3,168
   
24,073
 
Loans previously under LTSPCs exchanged for Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
   
891,278
   
-
 


 
(b)
Allowance for Losses

As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac maintained an allowance for losses to cover estimated probable losses on loans held for investment, real estate owned, and loans underlying long-term standby purchase commitments (“LTSPCs”) and Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities issued after the Farm Credit System Reform Act of 1996 (the “1996 Act”) in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 5, Accounting for Contingencies (“SFAS 5”) and Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 114, Accounting by Creditors for Impairment of a Loan, as amended (“SFAS 114”).

The allowance for losses is increased through periodic provisions for loan losses that are charged against net interest income and provisions for losses that are charged to operating expense and is reduced by charge-offs for actual losses, net of recoveries. Negative provisions for loan losses or negative provisions for losses are recorded in the event that the estimate of probable losses as of the end of a period is lower than the estimate at the beginning of the period.

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Prior to September 30, 2005, Farmer Mac estimated its inherent probable losses using a systematic process that began with management’s evaluation of the results of a proprietary loan pool simulation and guarantee fee model. That model drew upon historical information from a data set of agricultural mortgage loans screened to include only those loans with credit characteristics similar to those eligible for Farmer Mac’s programs. The model offered historical loss experience on agricultural mortgage loans similar to those on which Farmer Mac had assumed credit risk, but over a longer term than Farmer Mac’s own experience. The results generated by that model were then modified, as necessary, by the application of management’s judgment. Prior to September 30, 2005, Farmer Mac did not believe that its own historical portfolio lending and loss experience was statistically sufficient to estimate the inherent probable losses in its portfolio.

As of September 30, 2005, Farmer Mac believed it had accumulated and analyzed sufficient data from its own historical portfolio lending, loss experience, and credit trends to estimate its inherent probable losses based upon its own historical experience. Farmer Mac believes that estimating its allowance for losses based on data derived from its own portfolio reflects the characteristics of credit trends within the portfolio. Farmer Mac recorded the effects of that change as a change in accounting estimate, which resulted in a $4.8 million decrease in the allowance for losses as of September 30, 2005.

Farmer Mac’s current methodology for determining its allowance for losses incorporates the Corporation’s proprietary automated loan classification system. That system scores loans based on criteria such as historical repayment performance, loan seasoning, loan size and loan-to-value ratio. For the purposes of the loss allowance methodology, the loans in Farmer Mac’s portfolio of loans and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs have been scored and classified for each calendar quarter since first quarter 2000. The allowance methodology captures the migration of loan scores across concurrent and overlapping 3-year time horizons and calculates loss rates separately within each loan classification for (1) loans underlying LTSPCs and (2) loans held and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities. The calculated loss rates are applied to the current classification distribution of Farmer Mac’s portfolio to estimate inherent probable losses, on the assumption that the historical credit losses and trends used to calculate loss rates will continue in the future. Management evaluates this assumption by taking into consideration several factors, including:
 
 
·
economic conditions;
 
·
geographic and agricultural commodity/product concentrations in the portfolio;
 
·
the credit profile of the portfolio;
 
·
delinquency trends of the portfolio; and
 
·
historical charge-off and recovery activities of the portfolio.
 
If, based on that evaluation, management concludes that the assumption is not valid due to other more compelling indicators, the loss allowance calculation is modified by the addition of further assumptions to capture current portfolio trends and characteristics that differ from historical experience.

As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac concluded that the credit profile of its portfolio was consistent with Farmer Mac’s historical credit profile and trends. Management believes that its use of this methodology produces a reliable estimate of inherent probable losses, as of the balance sheet date, for all loans held, real estate owned and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs in accordance with SFAS 5 and SFAS 114.

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The following table summarizes the changes in the components of Farmer Mac’s allowance for losses for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2005:

   
September 30, 2006
 
   
Allowance
for Loan
Losses
 
REO
Valuation
Allowance
 
Reserve
for Losses
 
Total
Allowance
for Losses
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Three Months Ended:
                 
Beginning balance
 
$
2,734
 
$
-
 
$
3,518
 
$
6,252
 
Provision/(recovery) for losses
   
(525
)
 
-
   
(643
)
 
(1,168
)
Charge-offs
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
Recoveries
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
Ending balance
 
$
2,209
 
$
-
 
$
2,875
 
$
5,084
 
                           
Nine Months Ended:
                         
Beginning balance
 
$
4,876
 
$
-
 
$
3,777
 
$
8,653
 
Provision/(recovery) for losses
   
(2,132
)
 
155
   
(902
)
 
(2,879
)
Charge-offs
   
(900
)
 
(155
)
 
-
   
(1,055
)
Recoveries
   
365
   
-
   
-
   
365
 
Ending balance
 
$
2,209
 
$
-
 
$
2,875
 
$
5,084
 

   
September 30, 2005
 
   
Allowance
for Loan
Losses
 
REO
Valuation
Allowance
 
Reserve
for Losses
 
Total
Allowance
for Losses
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Three Months Ended:
                 
Beginning balance
 
$
3,670
 
$
-
 
$
12,394
 
$
16,064
 
Provision/(recovery) for losses
   
(816
)
 
85
   
(96
)
 
(827
)
Charge-offs
   
(20
)
 
(85
)
 
-
   
(105
)
Recoveries
   
553
   
-
   
-
   
553
 
Change in accounting estimate
   
3,281
   
-
   
(8,070
)
 
(4,789
)
Ending balance
 
$
6,668
 
$
-
 
$
4,228
 
$
10,896
 
                           
Nine Months Ended:
                         
Beginning balance
 
$
4,395
 
$
-
 
$
12,706
 
$
17,101
 
Provision/(recovery) for losses
   
(1,603
)
 
205
   
(408
)
 
(1,806
)
Charge-offs
   
(46
)
 
(205
)
 
-
   
(251
)
Recoveries
   
641
   
-
   
-
   
641
 
Change in accounting estimate
   
3,281
   
-
   
(8,070
)
 
(4,789
)
Ending balance
 
$
6,668
 
$
-
 
$
4,228
 
$
10,896
 
 
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The table below summarizes the components of Farmer Mac’s allowance for losses as of September 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005:

   
September 30,
2006
 
December 31,
2005
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Allowance for loan losses
 
$
2,209
 
$
4,876
 
Real estate owned valuation allowance
   
-
   
-
 
Reserve for losses:
             
On-balance sheet Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities
   
1,147
   
2,068
 
Off-balance sheet Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities
   
1,173
   
1,078
 
LTSPCs
   
555
   
631
 
Total
 
$
5,084
 
$
8,653
 
 
No allowance for losses has been made for loans underlying Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities issued prior to the 1996 Act, AgVantage securities or securities issued under the Farmer Mac II program (“Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities”). Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities issued prior to the 1996 Act are supported by unguaranteed first loss subordinated interests, which are expected to exceed the estimated credit losses on those loans. Each AgVantage security is a general obligation of an issuing institution approved by Farmer Mac and is collateralized by eligible mortgage loans. As of September 30, 2006, there were no probable losses inherent in Farmer Mac’s AgVantage securities, due to the high credit quality of the obligors as well as the underlying collateral. The guaranteed portions collateralizing Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities are guaranteed by the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”). Each USDA guarantee is an obligation backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac had not experienced any credit losses on any Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities issued prior to the 1996 Act, AgVantage securities or Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities and does not expect to incur any such losses in the future.

As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac individually analyzed $21.8 million of its $60.8 million of impaired assets for collateral shortfalls against updated appraised values, other updated collateral valuations or discounted values. Farmer Mac evaluated the remaining $39.0 million of impaired assets for which updated valuations were not available in the aggregate in consideration of their similar risk characteristics and historical statistics. All of the $21.8 million of assets analyzed individually were adequately collateralized. Accordingly, Farmer Mac did not record any specific allowances for under-collateralized assets as of September 30, 2006. In addition, Farmer Mac’s non-specific or general allowances were $5.1 million as of September 30, 2006.

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The balance of impaired assets, both on- and off-balance sheet, and the related allowance specifically allocated to those impaired assets as of September 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005 are summarized in the following table:

   
September 30, 2006
 
December 31, 2005
 
   
Balance
 
Specific Allowance
 
Net Balance
 
Balance
 
Specific Allowance
 
Net Balance
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Impaired assets:
                         
 Specific allowance for losses
 
$
-
    
$
-
    
$
-
    
$
2,445
    
$
(161
)   
$
2,284
 
 No specific allowance for losses
   
60,759
   
-
   
60,759
   
71,177
   
-
   
71,177
 
Total
 
$
60,759
 
$
-
 
$
60,759
 
$
73,622
 
$
(161
)
$
73,461
 
 
 
(c)
Financial Derivatives

Farmer Mac enters into financial derivative transactions principally to protect against risk from the effects of market price or interest rate movements on the value of certain assets and future cash flows or debt issuance, not for trading or speculative purposes. Farmer Mac enters into interest rate swap contracts principally to adjust the characteristics of its short-term debt to match more closely the cash flow and duration characteristics of its longer-term mortgage and other assets, and also to adjust the characteristics of its long-term debt to match more closely the cash flow and duration characteristics of its short-term assets, thereby reducing interest rate risk. These transactions also may provide an overall lower effective cost of borrowing than would otherwise be available in the conventional debt market.

Farmer Mac manages the interest rate risk related to loans it has committed to acquire, but has not yet purchased and permanently funded through the use of forward sale contracts on mortgage-backed securities and the debt of other GSEs and futures contracts involving U.S. Treasury securities. Farmer Mac uses forward sale contracts on GSE securities to reduce its interest rate exposure to changes in both Treasury rates and spreads on Farmer Mac debt and Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities. The notional amounts of these contracts are determined based on a duration-matched hedge ratio between the hedged item and the hedge instrument. Gains or losses generated by these hedge transactions should offset any changes in funding costs or AMBS sale prices that occur during the hedge period.

All financial derivatives are recorded on the balance sheet at fair value as a freestanding asset or liability in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, as amended (“SFAS 133”). As discussed in Note 6, Farmer Mac does not designate its financial derivatives as fair value hedges or cash flow hedges, therefore, the changes in the fair values of financial derivatives are reported as gains or losses on financial derivatives and trading assets in the condensed consolidated statements of operations.

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The following table summarizes information related to Farmer Mac’s financial derivatives as of September 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005:

   
As of September 30, 2006
 
As of December 31, 2005
 
   
Notional
Amount
 
Fair
Value
 
Notional
Amount
 
Fair
Value
 
                   
Interest rate swaps:
                 
Pay-fixed
 
$
824,177
   
$
(11,148
)  
$
710,678
   
$
(17,228
)
Receive-fixed
   
527,582
   
(6,772
)
 
205,000
   
(5,752
)
Basis
   
355,435
   
2,524
   
389,496
   
2,801
 
Treasury futures
   
27
   
1
   
-
   
-
 
Agency forwards
   
5,749
   
43
   
91,178
   
(264
)
Total
 
$
1,712,970
 
$
(15,352
)
$
1,396,352
 
$
(20,443
)

As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac had approximately $1.0 million of net after-tax unrealized losses included in accumulated other comprehensive income related to the SFAS 133 transition adjustment. These amounts will be reclassified into earnings in the same period or periods during which the hedged forecasted transactions (either the payment of interest or the issuance of discount notes) affect earnings or immediately when it becomes probable that the original hedged forecasted transaction will not occur within two months of the originally specified date. Over the next twelve months, Farmer Mac estimates that $0.4 million of the amount currently reported in accumulated other comprehensive income will be reclassified into earnings.

As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac had outstanding basis swaps with a related party with a notional mount of $193.0 million and a fair value of $3.2 million.  Those swaps hedge the interest rate basis risk related to loans Farmer Mac purchases that pay a Constant Maturity Treasury-based rate and the Discount Notes Farmer Mac issues to fund the loan purchases. Under the terms of those basis swaps which are not in designated hedge relationships, Farmer Mac pays Constant Maturity Treasury-based rates and receives LIBOR. See Note 3 “Related Party Transactions” in the Corporation’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005, as filed with the SEC on November 9, 2006 for additional information on these related party transactions.  As of December 31, 2005, these swaps had an outstanding notional amount of $225.6 million and a fair value of $3.7 million. 

 
(d)
Earnings Per Common Share

Basic earnings per common share are based on the weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding. Diluted earnings per common share are based on the weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding adjusted to include all potentially dilutive common stock options. The following schedule reconciles basic and diluted earnings per common share (“EPS”) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2005:

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September 30, 2006
 
September 30, 2005
 
   
Basic
EPS
 
Dilutive
stock
options (1)
 
Diluted
EPS
 
Basic
EPS
 
Dilutive
Stock
options
 
Diluted
EPS
 
   
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
 
Three Months Ended:
                         
Net income available to common stockholders
 
$
(6,258
      
$
(6,258
)  
$
19,348
         
$
19,348
 
Weighted-average shares
   
10,704
   
-
   
10,704
   
11,205
   
200
   
11,405
 
Earnings/(loss) per common share
 
$
(0.58
)
     
$
(0.58
)
$
1.73
       
$
1.70
 
                                       
Nine Months Ended:
                                     
Net income available to common stockholders
 
$
22,211
       
$
22,211
 
$
35,170
       
$
35,170
 
Weighted average shares
   
10,963
   
272
   
11,235
   
11,434
   
104
   
11,538
 
Earnings per common share
 
$
2.03
       
$
1.98
 
$
3.08
       
$
3.05
 

(1)
For the three months ended September 30, 2006, approximately 242,000 stock options were not included in the loss per share computation because they would have been anti-dilutive.

On November 11, 2005, Farmer Mac established a program to repurchase up to 10 percent, or 958,632 shares, of the Corporation’s outstanding Class C non-voting common stock. During the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac repurchased 384,900 shares and 706,350 shares, respectively, of its Class C Non-Voting Common Stock at an average price of $26.98 and $26.85 per share, respectively, pursuant to the Corporation’s stock repurchase program. These repurchases reduced the Corporation’s capital by approximately $10.4 million and $19.0 million, respectively.

(e) Stock-Based Compensation

In 1997, Farmer Mac adopted a stock option plan for directors, officers and other employees to acquire shares of Class C Non-Voting Common Stock. Under the plan, stock option awards vest annually in thirds, with the first third vesting one year after the date of grant. If not exercised, any options granted under the 1997 plan expire ten years from the date of grant, except options issued to directors since June 1, 1998, if not exercised, expire five years from the date of grant. Of the 3,750,000 shares authorized to be issued under the plan, 483,257 remain available for future issuance. For all stock options granted, the exercise price is equal to the closing price of the Class C Non-Voting Common Stock on or immediately preceding the date of grant.

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Effective January 1, 2006, Farmer Mac adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based Payments (“SFAS 123(R)”) using the modified prospective method of transition, which requires (1) the recordation of compensation expense for the non-vested portion of previously issued awards that remain outstanding as of the initial date of adoption and (2) the recordation of compensation expense for any awards issued or modified after December 31, 2005. Accordingly, prior period amounts have not been retrospectively adjusted for this change. The adoption resulted in the recognition of $0.4 million and $1.3 million of compensation expense during the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006, respectively, related to the non-vested portion of previously issued stock option awards that were outstanding as of the initial date of adoption. Additionally, Farmer Mac recognized $0.3 million and $0.4 million of compensation expense related to stock options awarded during 2006, for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006, respectively. The effect of the recognition of compensation expense resulting from stock options on diluted EPS for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 was a reduction of $0.04 and $0.10, respectively, per diluted share. Prior to the adoption of SFAS 123(R), Farmer Mac accounted for its stock-based employee compensation plans under the intrinsic value method of accounting for employee stock options pursuant to Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees (“APB 25”), and had adopted the disclosure-only provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation, as amended (“SFAS 123”). Accordingly, no compensation expense was recognized in 2005 for employee stock option plans. Had Farmer Mac elected to use the fair value method of accounting for employee stock options, net income available to common stockholders and earnings per share for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005 would have been reduced to the pro forma amounts indicated in the following table:

   
Three Months
Ended
September 30, 2005
 
Nine Months
Ended
September 30, 2005
 
   
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
 
Net income available to common stockholders, as reported
 
$
19,348
   
$
35,170
 
Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value-based method for all awards, net of tax
   
(228
)
 
(2,066
)
Pro forma net income available to common stockholders
 
$
19,120
 
$
33,104
 
               
Earnings per common share:
             
Basic - as reported
 
$
1.73
 
$
3.08
 
Basic - pro forma
 
$
1.71
 
$
2.90
 
               
Diluted - as reported
 
$
1.70
 
$
3.05
 
Diluted - pro forma
 
$
1.68
 
$
2.87
 
 
As of September 30, 2006, there was $2.4 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to stock options outstanding and unvested as of December 31, 2005. Of that cost, $0.4 million and $1.4 million is expected to be recognized in the remainder of 2006 and 2007, respectively.

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The following table summarizes stock option activity for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2005:

   
September 30, 2006
 
September 30, 2005
 
   
Shares
 
Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price
 
Shares
 
Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price
 
Three Months Ended:
                 
Outstanding, beginning of period
   
2,299,934
 
$
23.22
   
2,141,300
 
$
22.30
 
Granted
   
15,000
   
26.59
   
46,000
   
24.34
 
Exercised
   
(109,463
)
 
17.46
   
(7,966
)
 
19.85
 
Canceled
   
(7,334
)
 
28.73
   
(2,668
)
 
21.91
 
Outstanding, end of period
   
2,198,137
   
23.52
   
2,176,666
   
22.36
 
                           
Options exercisable at end of period
   
1,424,001
         
1,473,156
       
                           
Nine Months Ended:
                         
Outstanding, beginning of period
   
2,153,008
 
$
22.40
   
1,812,222
 
$
22.67
 
Granted
   
373,928
   
26.36
   
478,561
   
20.95
 
Exercised
   
(246,374
)
 
16.31
   
(47,769
)
 
15.07
 
Canceled
   
(82,425
)
 
28.81
   
(66,348
)
 
26.16
 
Outstanding, end of period
   
2,198,137
   
23.52
   
2,176,666
   
22.36
 
                           
Options exercisable at end of period
   
1,424,001
         
1,473,156
       

Stock option cancellations during the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2005 were due either to unvested options terminating in accordance with the provisions of the applicable stock option plans upon directors’ or employees’ departures from Farmer Mac or vested options terminating unexercised on their expiration date. For the three-month and the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006, the additional paid-in capital received from stock option exercises was $1.8 million and $3.8 million, respectively, compared to $0.2 million and $0.7 million for the comparable periods in the prior year. For the three-month and the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006, the reduction of income taxes to be paid as a result of the deduction for stock option exercises was $0.4 million and $1.1 million, respectively, compared to $14,000 and $0.1 million for the comparable periods in the prior year.

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The following table summarizes information regarding options outstanding as of September 30, 2006:


   
Options Outstanding
 
Options Exercisable
Range of
Exercise
Prices
 
Number of
Shares
 
Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life
 
Number of
Shares
             
$10.00 - $19.99
 
329,069
 
6.5 years
 
254,725
20.00 - 24.99
 
1,062,801
 
5.7 years
 
736,937
25.00 - 29.99
 
615,349
 
7.1 years
 
241,421
30.00 - 34.99
 
190,418
 
4.7 years
 
190,418
35.00 - 39.99
 
-
 
-
 
-
40.00 - 44.99
 
-
 
-
 
-
45.00 - 50.00
 
500
 
5.5 years
 
500
   
2,198,137
 
 
 
1,424,001

The weighted-average grant date fair values of options granted in 2006, 2005 and 2004 were $10.03, $6.69 and $7.34 per share, respectively. The fair values were estimated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions:

   
2006
 
2005
 
2004
 
Risk-free interest rate
   
5.0
%
 
3.9
%
 
4.3
%
Expected years until exercise
   
6 years
   
7 years
   
5 years
 
Expected stock volatility
   
36.9
%
 
46.3
%
 
47.8
%
Dividend yield
   
1.6
%
 
1.9
%
 
0.0
%

(f) Reclassifications
 
Certain reclassifications of prior period information were made to conform to the current period presentation.

(g) New Accounting Standards

In May 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 154, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections (“SFAS 154”), which replaced Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 20, Accounting Changes, and FASB Statement No. 3, Reporting Accounting Changes in Interim Financial Statements. SFAS 154 requires retrospective application to prior periods’ financial statements for changes in accounting principles, unless determination of either the period specific effects or the cumulative effect of the change is impracticable or otherwise promulgated. SFAS 154 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2005. Farmer Mac’s adoption of SFAS 154 effective January 1, 2006 did not have a material effect on Farmer Mac’s results of operations or financial position.

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In February 2006, FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 155, Accounting for Certain Hybrid Financial Instruments - an Amendment of FASB Statements No. 133 and 140 (“SFAS 155”), which resolves issues addressed in Statement 133 Implementation Issue No. D1, Application of Statement 133 to Beneficial Interests in Securitized Financial Assets. SFAS 155, among other things, permits the fair value re-measurement of any hybrid financial instrument that contains an embedded derivative that otherwise would require bifurcation; clarifies which interest-only strips and principal-only strips are not subject to the requirements of SFAS 133; and establishes a requirement to evaluate interests in securitized financial assets to identify interests that are freestanding derivatives or that are hybrid financial instruments that contain an embedded derivative requiring bifurcation. SFAS 155 is effective for all financial instruments acquired or issued in a fiscal year beginning after September 15, 2006. SFAS 155 is not expected to have a material effect on Farmer Mac’s results of operations and financial position.

In March 2006, FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 156, Accounting for Servicing of Financial Assets (“SFAS 156”), which requires that all separately recognized servicing assets and servicing liabilities be initially measured at fair value, if practicable and permits the entities to elect either fair value measurement with changes in fair value reflected in earnings or the amortization and impairment requirements of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 140, Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities, for subsequent measurement. SFAS 156 is effective on January 1, 2007. The adoption of SFAS 156 is not expected to have a material effect on Farmer Mac’s results of operations or financial position.

In July 2006, FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes—an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109 (“FIN 48”), which clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in tax positions. This Interpretation requires the recognition in financial statements of the impact of a tax position if that position is more likely than not to be sustained on audit, based on the technical merits of the position. The provisions of FIN 48 are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 31, 2006, with the cumulative effect of the change in accounting principle recorded as an adjustment to opening retained earnings. Farmer Mac is currently evaluating the impact, if any, that FIN 48 will have on its financial statements.

In September 2006, the SEC issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 108 (“SAB 108”), Quantifying Financial Misstatements, which expresses the SEC’s views regarding the process of quantifying financial statement misstatements. Registrants are required to quantify the impact of correcting all misstatements, including both the carryover and reversing effects of prior year misstatements, on the current year financial statements. The techniques most commonly used in practice to accumulate and quantify misstatements are generally referred to as the “rollover” (current year income statement perspective) and “iron curtain” (year-end balance perspective) approaches. The financial statements would require adjustment when either approach results in quantifying a misstatement that is material, after considering all relevant quantitative and qualitative factors. SAB 108 is not expected to have a material effect on Farmer Mac’s results of operations and financial position.

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Note 2.
Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities

The following table sets forth information about Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities retained by Farmer Mac as of September 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005.

   
Septemer 30, 2006
 
December 31, 2005
 
   
Available-
for-Sale
 
Held-to-
Maturity
 
Total
 
Available-
for-Sale
 
Held-to-
Maturity
 
Total
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Farmer Mac I
 
$
408,666
   
$
36,233
   
$
444,899
   
$
492,158
   
$
41,573
   
$
533,731
 
Farmer Mac II
   
-
   
870,902
   
870,902
   
-
   
797,245
   
797,245
 
Total
 
$
408,666
 
$
907,135
 
$
1,315,801
 
$
492,158
 
$
838,818
 
$
1,330,976
 
                                       
Amortized cost
 
$
401,128
 
$
907,135
 
$
1,308,263
 
$
477,561
 
$
838,818
 
$
1,316,379
 
Unrealized gains
   
10,792
   
217
   
11,009
   
18,395
   
448
   
18,843
 
Unrealized losses
   
(3,254
)
 
(7,752
)
 
(11,006
)
 
(3,798
)
 
(8,339
)
 
(12,137
)
Fair value
 
$
408,666
 
$
899,600
 
$
1,308,266
 
$
492,158
 
$
830,927
 
$
1,323,085
 

The temporary unrealized losses presented above are principally due to changes in interest rates from the date of acquisition to September 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, as applicable. Farmer Mac has the intent and ability to hold its guaranteed securities until either the market value recovers or the securities mature.

The table below presents a sensitivity analysis for Farmer Mac’s retained Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities as of September 30, 2006.
 
 
 
September 30, 2006 
 
 
 
(dollars in thousands) 
 
Fair value of beneficial interests retained in Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
 
$
1,308,266
 
 
     
Weighted-average remaining life (in years)
   
4.5
 
 
     
Weighted-average prepayment speed (annual rate)
   
11.7
%
Effect on fair value of a 10% adverse change
 
$
(341
)
Effect on fair value of a 20% adverse change
 
$
(627
)
 
     
Weighted-average discount rate
   
5.8
%
Effect on fair value of a 10% adverse change
 
$
(17,218
)
Effect on fair value of a 20% adverse change
 
$
(34,810
)
 
These sensitivities are hypothetical. Changes in fair value based on 10 percent or 20 percent variations in assumptions generally cannot be extrapolated because the relationship of the change in assumptions to the change in fair value may not be linear. Also, the effect of a variation in a particular assumption on the fair value of the retained interest is calculated without changing any other assumption. In fact, changes in one factor may result in changes in another (for example, increases in market interest rates may result in lower prepayments), which might amplify or counteract the sensitivities.

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The table below presents the outstanding principal balances as of the periods indicated for Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities, loans, and LTSPCs.

   
September 30,
2006
 
December 31,
2005
 
   
(in thousands)
 
On-balance sheet assets:
         
Farmer Mac I:
             
Loans
 
$
763,084
 
$
784,422
 
Guaranteed Securities
   
436,721
   
518,250
 
Farmer Mac II:
             
Guaranteed Securities
   
866,663
   
796,224
 
Total on-balance sheet
 
$
2,066,468
 
$
2,098,896
 
               
               
Off-balance sheet assets:
             
Farmer Mac I:
             
LTSPCs
 
$
1,884,223
 
$
2,329,798
 
Guaranteed Securities
   
3,073,307
   
804,785
 
Farmer Mac II:
             
Guaranteed Securities
   
34,171
   
39,508
 
Total off-balance sheet
 
$
4,991,701
 
$
3,174,091
 
               
Total
 
$
7,058,169
 
$
5,272,987
 

Farmer Mac purchases defaulted loans from Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs pursuant to its obligations under its respective contractual commitments. Farmer Mac records purchases of defaulted loans at their fair values. Fair values are determined by appraisal or management’s estimate of discounted collateral value, and represents the cash flows expected to be collected. Farmer Mac records, at acquisition, the difference between each loan’s acquisition cost and its fair value, if any, as a charge-off to the reserve for losses. Subsequent to the purchase, such defaulted loans are treated as nonaccrual loans and, therefore, interest is accounted for on the cash basis. Any decreases in expected cash flows are recognized as impairment. The following table presents information related to Farmer Mac’s purchases of defaulted loans as of  September 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005 and for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2005.

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Three Months Ended
 
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30,
2006
 
September 30,
2005
 
September 30,
2006
 
September 30,
2005
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Fair value at acquisition date
 
$
1,128
 
$
7,218
 
$
5,693
 
$
11,022
 
Contractually required payments receivable
   
1,164
   
7,495
   
5,799
   
11,420
 
Impairment recognized subseqent to acquisition
   
-
   
40
   
-
   
40
 

   
September 30,
2006
 
December 31,
2005
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Outstanding balance
   $
45,343
   $
51,043
 
Carrying amount
   
41,539
   
47,544
 

Net credit losses and 90-day delinquencies as of and for the periods indicated for Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities, loans and LTSPCs are presented in the table below. Information is not presented for loans underlying Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities issued prior to the 1996 Act or Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities. Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities issued prior to the 1996 Act are supported by unguaranteed first loss subordinated interests, which are expected to exceed the estimated credit losses on those loans. The guaranteed portions collateralizing Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities are guaranteed by the USDA. Each USDA guarantee is an obligation backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac had not experienced any credit losses on any Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities issued prior to the 1996 Act or on any Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities and does not expect to incur any such losses in the future.

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90-Day
Delinquencies (1)
 
Net Credit
Losses/(Recoveries)
 
   
As of
September 30,
 
As of
December 31,
 
For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
   
2006
 
2005
 
2006
 
2005
 
   
(in thousands)
 
On-balance sheet assets:
                 
Farmer Mac I:
                         
Loans
 
$
23,616
 
$
23,308
 
$
536
 
$
(595
)
Guaranteed Securities
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
Total on-balance sheet
 
$
23,616
 
$
23,308
 
$
536
 
$
(595
)
                           
                           
Off-balance sheet assets:
                         
Farmer Mac I:
                         
LTSPCs
 
$
4,821
 
$
2,153
 
$
-
 
$
-
 
Guaranteed Securities
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
Total off-balance sheet
 
$
4,821
 
$
2,153
 
$
-
 
$
-
 
                           
Total
 
$
28,437
 
$
25,461
 
$
536
 
$
(595
)
 
(1)
Includes loans and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs that are 90 days or more past due, in foreclosure, restructured after delinquency, and in bankruptcy, excluding loans performing under either their original loan terms or a court-approved bankruptcy plan.

Note 3.
Off-Balance Sheet Guarantees and Long-Term Standby Purchase Commitments

Overview

Farmer Mac offers approved agricultural and rural residential mortgage lenders two off-balance sheet alternatives to increase their liquidity or lending capacity while retaining the cash flow benefits of their loans: (1) Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities, which are available through either the Farmer Mac I program or the Farmer Mac II program; and (2) LTSPCs, which are available only through the Farmer Mac I program. Both of these alternatives result in the creation of off-balance sheet obligations for Farmer Mac in the ordinary course of its business.

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Off-Balance Sheet Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities

Periodically Farmer Mac transfers agricultural mortgage loans into trusts that are used as vehicles for the securitization of the transferred assets and the beneficial interests in the trusts are sold to third party investors. The following table summarizes certain cash flows received from and paid to these trusts:
 
   
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30, 2006
 
September 30, 2005
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Proceeds from new securitizations
 
$
3,168
 
$
24,073
 
Guarantee fees received
   
1,313
   
1,329
 
Purchases of assets from the trusts
   
506
   
2,508
 
Servicing advances
   
64
   
6
 
Repayment of servicing advances
   
69
   
21
 
 
The following table presents the outstanding balance of off-balance sheet Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities, which represents the maximum principal amount of potential undiscounted future payments that Farmer Mac could be required to make with respect to those securities as of September 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, not including offsets provided by any recourse provisions, recoveries from third parties or collateral for the underlying loans.

Outstanding Balance of Off-Balance Sheet
Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
 
   
September 30,
2006
 
December 31,
2005
 
   
(in thousands)
 
           
Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities
 
$
3,073,307
 
$
804,785
 
Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities
   
34,171
   
39,508
 
               
Total Farmer Mac I and II
 
$
3,107,478
 
$
844,293
 

As of September 30, 2006, the weighted-average remaining maturity of all loans underlying off-balance sheet Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities, excluding AgVantage securities, was 14.6 years. For those securities issued or modified on or after January 1, 2003, Farmer Mac has recorded a liability for its obligation to stand ready under the guarantee in the guarantee and commitment obligation on the condensed consolidated balance sheet. This liability approximated $13.7 million as of September 30, 2006 and $5.2 million as of December 31, 2005.

Long-Term Standby Purchase Commitments (LTSPCs)

An LTSPC is a commitment by Farmer Mac to purchase eligible loans from a segregated pool of loans, either for cash or in exchange for Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities, on one or more undetermined future dates.

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As of September 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, the maximum principal amount of potential undiscounted future payments that Farmer Mac could be requested to make under LTSPCs, not including offsets provided by any recourse provisions, recoveries from third parties or collateral for the underlying loans, was $1.9 billion and $2.3 billion, respectively.

As of September 30, 2006, the weighted-average remaining maturity of all loans underlying LTSPCs was 15.3 years. For those LTSPCs issued or modified on or after January 1, 2003, Farmer Mac has recorded a liability for its obligation to stand ready under the commitment in the guarantee and commitment obligation on the condensed consolidated balance sheet. This liability approximated $17.4 million as of September 30, 2006 and $12.4 million as of December 31, 2005.

Note 4.
Comprehensive Income

Comprehensive income/(loss) represents all changes in stockholders’ equity except those resulting from investments by or distributions to stockholders, and is comprised primarily of net income available to common stockholders and unrealized gains and losses on securities available-for-sale net of related taxes. The following table sets forth Farmer Mac’s comprehensive income for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2005:

   
Three Months Ended
 
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30,
2006
 
September 30,
2005
 
September 30,
2006
 
September 30,
2005
 
   
(in thousands)
 
                   
Net income/(loss) available to common stockholders
 
$
(6,258
)
$
19,348
 
$
22,211
 
$
35,170
 
                           
Unrealized gains/(losses) on securities
   
12,128
   
(24,582
)
 
(12,058
)
 
(26,238
)
Amortization of FAS 133 transition adjustment on financial derivatives
   
202
   
260
   
660
   
840
 
Other compehensive income/(loss), before tax
   
12,329
   
(24,322
)
 
(11,398
)
 
(25,398
)
                           
Income tax expense/(benefit) related to items of other comprehensive income
   
4,315
   
(8,513
)
 
(3,989
)
 
(8,889
)
Other comprehensive income/(loss), net of tax
   
8,014
   
(15,809
)
 
(7,409
)
 
(16,509
)
Comprehensive income available to common stockholders
 
$
1,756
 
$
3,539
 
$
14,802
 
$
18,661
 
 
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Note 5.
Investments

As of the dates indicated below, Farmer Mac’s investment portfolio was comprised of the following investment securities:

   
September 30,
2006
 
December 31,
2005
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Held-to-maturity
 
$
10,602
 
$
10,602
 
Available-for-sale
   
1,880,135
   
1,604,419
 
Trading
   
5,523
   
6,920
 
   
$
1,896,260
 
$
1,621,941
 

The amortized cost and estimated fair values of investments as of September 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005 were as follows:

   
As of September 30, 2006
 
As of December 31, 2005
 
   
Amortized
Cost
 
Unrealized
Gains
 
Unrealized
Losses
 
Fair Value
 
Amortized
Cost
 
Unrealized
Gains
 
Unrealized
Losses
 
Fair Value
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Held-to-maturity:
                                 
Cash investment in fixed rate guaranteed investment contract
 
$
10,602
  
$
-
  
$
(6
$
10,596
  
$
10,602
  
$
18
  
$
-
  
$
10,620
 
Total held-to-maturity
 
$
10,602
 
$
-
 
$
(6
)
$
10,596
 
$
10,602
 
$
18
 
$
-
 
$
10,620
 
                                                   
Available-for-sale:
                                                 
Floating rate asset-backed securities
 
$
272,148
 
$
825
 
$
-
 
$
272,973
 
$
336,647
 
$
941
 
$
-
 
$
337,588
 
Floating rate corporate debt securities
   
386,818
   
429
   
(4
)
 
387,243
   
230,787
   
515
   
(10
)
 
231,292
 
Fixed rate corporate debt securities
   
604,530
   
29
   
(3,833
)
 
600,726
   
520,381
   
-
   
(1,950
)
 
518,431
 
Fixed rate preferred stock
   
237,338
   
9,164
   
(711
)
 
245,791
   
239,033
   
11,687
   
(304
)
 
250,416
 
Fixed rate commercial paper
   
209,876
   
-
   
-
   
209,876
   
90,848
   
-
   
-
   
90,848
 
Floating rate mortgage-backed securities
   
153,281
   
571
   
(9
)
 
153,843
   
175,441
   
481
   
(78
)
 
175,844
 
Fixed rate mortgage-backed securities
   
9,859
   
-
   
(176
)
 
9,683
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
Total available-for-sale
 
$
1,873,850
 
$
11,018
 
$
(4,733
)
$
1,880,135
 
$
1,593,137
 
$
13,624
 
$
(2,342
)
$
1,604,419
 
                                                   
Trading:
                                                 
Adjustable rate mortgage-backed securities
 
$
5,461
 
$
62
 
$
-
 
$
5,523
 
$
6,867
 
$
53
 
$
-
 
$
6,920
 
Total trading
 
$
5,461
 
$
62
 
$
-
 
$
5,523
 
$
6,867
 
$
53
 
$
-
 
$
6,920
 

The temporary unrealized losses presented above are principally due to changes in interest rates from the date of acquisition to September 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005, as applicable.

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Farmer Mac has the intent and ability to hold its investment securities until either the market value recovers or the securities mature.

As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac owned one held-to-maturity investment that matures in 2006 with an amortized cost of $10.6 million, a fair value of $10.6 million, and a yield of 6.5 percent. As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac owned trading investment securities that mature after 10 years with an amortized cost of $5.5 million, a fair value of $5.5 million, and a weighted average yield of 5.38 percent. The amortized cost, fair value and yield of investments by remaining contractual maturity for available-for-sale investment securities as of September 30, 2006 are set forth below. Asset- and mortgage-backed securities are included based on their final maturities, although the actual maturities may differ due to prepayments of the underlying assets or mortgages.

   
Investment Securities
Available-for-Sale
as of September 30, 2006
 
   
Amortized Cost
 
Fair Value
 
Yield
 
   
(dollars in thousands)
 
Due within one year
 
$
329,413
 
$
329,288
   
2.12
%
Due after one year
                   
through five years
   
1,017,627
   
1,017,785
   
5.43
%
Due after five years
                   
through ten years
   
30,859
   
30,946
   
5.70
%
Due after ten years
   
495,951
   
502,116
   
6.05
%
Total
 
$
1,873,850
 
$
1,880,135
   
5.02
%


Note 6.
Restatement of Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

In the preparation of its September 30, 2006 condensed consolidated financial statements, the Corporation determined that it needed to restate prior financial results to correct its accounting for financial derivatives. The Corporation determined that it had inappropriately recorded changes in the fair value of cash flow hedges in other comprehensive income, net of income taxes, and recorded changes in the fair value of fair value hedges as basis adjustments on the hedged item rather than account for the financial derivatives as undesignated financial derivatives with all changes in the fair value of the financial derivatives recognized in the consolidated statements of operations.

The Corporation, in light of SEC staff comments, has recently concluded a reassessment of its documentation and accounting treatment of financial derivative transactions in accordance with SFAS 133, and related interpretations. Based on the reassessment, while the transactions engaged in by the Corporation were highly effective economic hedges of interest rate risk, the Corporation has determined that it was not appropriately applying hedge accounting in accordance with SFAS 133.

As a result, the Corporation’s financial results prior to June 30, 2006 have been restated from the amounts originally reported to correct the accounting for financial derivatives. The corrections related to the Corporation’s accounting for fair value hedges and cash flow hedges as described in more detail below.

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The Corporation reduced its stockholders’ equity by $0.9 million as of January 1, 2003 as the cumulative effect of the correction of its accounting for financial derivatives for all periods preceding January 1, 2003, and restated its consolidated statements of operations and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 and its consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2005 and 2004. The restatement resulted in an increase to previously reported net income available to common stockholders of $11.7 million ($1.03 per diluted common share) and $14.4 million ($1.25 per diluted common share) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005, respectively. There was no effect on net cash flows or the amount of dividends declared for any periods presented.

Fair Value Hedges:

The Corporation has determined that it did not meet the specific documentation requirements required by SFAS 133 to assume no ineffectiveness in its fair value hedge relationships or to apply hedge accounting to its fair value hedges. As a result, the Corporation’s designation of its financial derivatives as fair value hedges for the period from January 1, 2001 to June 30, 2006 did not meet the requirements of SFAS 133.

The impact of the restatement on the consolidated statements of operations related to fair value hedges was to reverse previously applied hedge accounting for all hedging relationships. For financial derivatives previously accounted for as fair value hedges, the net accruals for the derivatives were previously recorded to net interest income, and net changes in fair values of the financial derivatives were previously recorded as basis adjustments to the hedged items, such as notes payable, loans held for sale, or investment securities. As a result of the restatement, the previous accounting treatment was reversed (i.e., the net accruals recorded to net interest income were reclassified to gains and losses on financial derivatives and basis adjustments for the hedged items was reversed), and the total changes in the fair values of the derivative instruments, including interest accrual settlements, were recorded directly to gains/(losses) on financial derivatives and trading assets.

Cash Flow Hedges:

The Corporation determined also that it did not meet specific documentation and other requirements of SFAS 133 to apply hedge accounting to its cash flow hedges. In this regard, the Corporation has determined that its forecasted transactions were not documented with sufficient specificity at the inception of the hedge relationship to allow those transactions to be identified as the intended “hedged transactions” when they occurred; some of its forecasted transactions related to the acquisitions of assets, or incurrences of liabilities, involved subsequent remeasurements with changes in fair value attributable to the hedged risk reported currently in earnings; and the benchmark index identified for its basis swaps did not meet the definition of a “benchmark interest rate” as that term is defined in SFAS 133. As a result, the Corporation’s designation of its financial derivatives as cash flow hedges for the period from January 1, 2001 to June 30, 2006 did not meet the requirements of SFAS 133. 

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The impact of the restatement on the consolidated statements of operations related to fair value hedges was to reverse previously applied hedge accounting for all hedging relationships. For financial derivatives previously accounted for as cash flow hedges, the Corporation recorded accruals from the financial derivatives to net interest income and recorded net changes in the fair values of the derivatives, net-of-tax, to accumulated other comprehensive income (“OCI”). As a result of the restatement, the previous accounting treatment for cash flow hedges was reversed from accumulated OCI and net interest income, and recorded to gains/(losses) on financial derivatives and trading assets.

The following tables set forth the previously reported and restated amounts of selected items within the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2005 and within the consolidated statements of operations and consolidated statements of cash flows for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005.

   
December 31, 2005
 
Selected Balance Sheet Data:
 
As Previously
Reported
 
As
Restated
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Assets:
         
Deferred tax asset, net
 
$
2,397
 
$
3,223
 
Total Assets
   
4,340,619
   
4,341,445
 
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity:
             
Notes payable: Due after one year
   
1,403,598
   
1,406,527
 
Total notes payable
   
3,991,302
   
3,994,231
 
Total Liabilities
   
4,092,487
   
4,095,416
 
Accumulated other comprehensive income
   
3,339
   
15,247
 
Retained earnings
   
115,644
   
101,633
 
Total Stockholders' Equity
   
248,132
   
246,029
 
Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity
   
4,340,619
   
4,341,445
 
 
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For the three months ended,
September 30, 2005
 
For the nine months ended,
September 30, 2005
 
Selected Statements of Operations Data:
 
As Previously
Reported
 
As
Restated
 
As Previously
Reported
 
As
Restated
 
   
(in thousands, except per share data)
 
Interest income
                 
Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
 
$
17,203
 
$
17,680
 
$
52,057
 
$
54,679
 
Total interest income
   
49,059
   
49,536
   
134,856
   
137,478
 
Total interest expense
   
41,186
   
38,028
   
111,054
   
99,147
 
Net interest income
   
7,873
   
11,508
   
23,802
   
38,331
 
Net interest income after recovery/(provision) for loan losses
   
5,408
   
9,043
   
22,124
   
36,653
 
                           
Non-interest income/(loss)
                         
(Loss)/gains on financial derivatives and trading assets
   
(2,379
)
 
12,009
   
(392
)
 
7,254
 
Non-interest income
   
3,505
   
17,893
   
16,080
   
23,726
 
                           
Income before income taxes
   
11,663
   
29,686
   
32,018
   
54,193
 
                           
Income tax expense
   
3,470
   
9,778
   
9,582
   
17,343
 
Net income
   
8,193
   
19,908
   
22,436
   
36,850
 
Net income available to common stockholders
   
7,633
   
19,348
   
20,756
   
35,170
 
                           
Earnings per common share:
                         
Basic earnings /(loss) per common share
 
$
0.68
 
$
1.73
 
$
1.82
 
$
3.08
 
Diluted earnings /(loss) per common share
 
$
0.67
 
$
1.70
 
$
1.80
 
$
3.05
 
 
   
For the nine months ended,
September 30, 2005
 
Selected Statements of Cash Flows Data:
 
As Previously
Reported
 
As
Restated
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Cash flows from operating activities:
         
Net income
 
$
22,436
 
$
36,850
 
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash used in operating activities:
             
Net change in fair value of trading securities and financial derivatives
   
999
   
(20,428
)
Amortization of SFAS 133 transition adjustment on financial derivatives
   
1,346
   
545
 
Deferred income taxes
   
-
   
(9,293
)
Decrease in other assets
   
1,914
   
19,179
 
Net cash used in operating activities
   
(1,449
)
 
(1,291
)
               
Cash flows from financing activities:
             
Settlement of financial derivatives
   
158
   
-
 
Net cash provided by financing activities
   
382,100
   
381,942
 
 
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Item 2.
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
 
The following management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations set forth in this Item 2 reflects changes in financial reporting resulting from the Corporation’s corrections in accounting for financial derivative transactions under SFAS 133 that were contained in the Corporation’s restated audited condensed consolidated financial statements and other financial information as of December 31, 2005 and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005 as discussed below and in Note 6 of the restated unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. Financial information is consolidated to include the accounts of Farmer Mac and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Farmer Mac Mortgage Securities Corporation.

This discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations should be read together with: (1) the interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes that appear elsewhere in this report; and (2) Farmer Mac’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005.

The discussion below is not necessarily indicative of future results.
 
Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Some statements made in this report are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 pertaining to management’s current expectations as to Farmer Mac’s future financial results, business prospects and business developments. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance or achievements, and typically are accompanied by, and identified with, such terms as “anticipates,” “believes,” “expects,” “intends,” “should” and similar phrases. The following management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations includes forward-looking statements addressing Farmer Mac’s:
 
 
·
prospects for earnings;
 
·
prospects for growth in loan purchase, guarantee, securitization and LTSPC volume;
 
·
trends in net interest income;
 
·
trends in provisions for losses;
 
·
trends in expenses;
 
·
changes in capital position; and
 
·
other business and financial matters.

Management’s expectations for Farmer Mac’s future involve a number of assumptions and estimates and the evaluation of risks and uncertainties. Various factors or events could cause Farmer Mac’s actual results to differ materially from the expectations as expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including the factors discussed under “Risk Factors” in Part II, Item 1A in this report and in Part I, Item 1A of Farmer Mac’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005, as filed with the SEC on November 9, 2006 and uncertainties regarding:

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·
the possible establishment of additional statutory or regulatory restrictions or constraints on Farmer Mac that could hamper its growth or diminish its profitability;
 
·
the general rate of growth in agricultural mortgage indebtedness;
 
·
the rate and direction of development of the secondary market for agricultural mortgage loans, particularly lender interest in the Farmer Mac secondary market and Farmer Mac credit products;
 
·
borrower preferences for fixed-rate agricultural mortgage indebtedness;
 
·
the willingness of investors to invest in Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities; and
 
·
possible reaction in the financial markets to events involving government-sponsored enterprises other than Farmer Mac.

In light of these potential risks and uncertainties, no undue reliance should be placed on any forward-looking statements expressed in this report. Furthermore, Farmer Mac undertakes no obligation to release publicly the results of revisions to any forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect new information or any future events or circumstances, except as otherwise mandated by law.

Restatement of Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

On November 9, 2006, the Corporation filed amendments to: (1)  its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 to restate the Corporation’s consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2005 and 2004, and for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, and other financial information as of and for the years ended December 31, 2002 and 2001 and the quarterly unaudited data for 2005 and 2004; (2) its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 to restate the quarterly unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and other financial information contained in that report; and (3) its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2006 to restate the quarterly unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and other financial information contained in that report. These restatements and resulting revisions related to the accounting treatment for financial derivatives transactions under SFAS 133. In this regard, and as the Corporation previously reported on Form 8-K on October 6, 2006, investors should not rely on the Corporation’s previously issued consolidated financial statements and other financial information for the years and each of the quarters in the years 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 and 2001 and the first and second quarters of 2006.

The Corporation, in light of SEC staff comments, has recently concluded a reassessment of its documentation and accounting treatment of financial derivative transactions in accordance with SFAS 133, interpretations of which have evolved. Based on the reassessment, while the transactions engaged in by the Corporation were highly effective economic hedges of interest rate risk, the Corporation has determined that it was not appropriately applying hedge accounting in accordance with SFAS 133.

As a result, the condensed consolidated financial statements included in Item 1 have been restated from the amounts previously reported to correct the accounting for financial derivatives. The corrections related to the Corporation’s accounting for fair value hedges and cash flow hedges as described in more detail below.

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The Corporation reduced its stockholders’ equity by $0.9 million as of January 1, 2003 as the cumulative effect of the correction of its accounting for financial derivatives for all periods preceding January 1, 2003, and restated its consolidated statements of operations and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 and its consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2005 and 2004. The restatement resulted in an increase to previously reported net income available to common stockholders of $5.8 million ($0.51 per diluted common share) and $15.8 million ($1.39 per diluted common share) for the three and six months ended June 30, 2006, and an increase of $11.7 million ($1.03 per diluted common share) and $14.4 million ($1.25 per diluted common share) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005, respectively. There was no effect on net cash flows, core earnings, or the amount of dividends declared for any periods presented.

Fair Value Hedges:

The Corporation has determined that it did not meet the specific documentation requirements required by SFAS 133 to assume no ineffectiveness in its fair value hedge relationships or to apply hedge accounting to its fair value hedges. As a result, the Corporation’s designation of its financial derivatives as fair value hedges for the period from January 1, 2001 to June 30, 2006 did not meet the requirements of SFAS 133.

The impact of the restatement on the consolidated statements of operations related to fair value hedges was to reverse previously applied hedge accounting for all hedging relationships. For financial derivatives previously accounted for as fair value hedges, the net accruals for the derivatives were previously recorded to net interest income, and net changes in fair values of the financial derivatives were previously recorded as basis adjustments to the hedged items, such as notes payable, loans held for sale, or investment securities. As a result of the restatement, the previous accounting treatment was reversed (i.e., the net accruals recorded to net interest income were reclassified to gains and losses on financial derivatives and basis adjustments for the hedged items was reversed), and the total changes in the fair values of the derivative instruments, including interest accrual settlements, were recorded directly to gains/(losses) on financial derivatives and trading assets.

Cash Flow Hedges:

The Corporation determined also that it did not meet specific documentation and other requirements of SFAS 133 to apply hedge accounting to its cash flow hedges. In this regard, the Corporation has determined that its forecasted transactions were not documented with sufficient specificity at the inception of the hedge relationship to allow those transactions to be identified as the intended “hedged transactions” when they occurred; some of its forecasted transactions related to the acquisitions of assets, or incurrences of liabilities, involved subsequent remeasurements with changes in fair value attributable to the hedged risk reported currently in earnings; and the benchmark index identified for its basis swaps did not meet the definition of a “benchmark interest rate” as that term is defined in SFAS 133. As a result, the Corporation’s designation of its financial derivatives as cash flow hedges for the period from January 1, 2001 to June 30, 2006 did not meet the requirements of SFAS 133.  

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The impact of the restatement on the consolidated statements of operations related to cash flow hedges was to reverse previously applied hedge accounting for all hedging relationships. For financial derivatives previously accounted for as cash flow hedges, the Corporation recorded accruals from the financial derivatives to net interest income and recorded net changes in the fair values of the derivatives, net-of-tax, to accumulated other comprehensive income (“OCI”). As a result of the restatement, the previous accounting treatment for cash flow hedges was reversed from accumulated OCI and net interest income, and recorded to gains/(losses) on financial derivatives and trading assets.

Critical Accounting Policy and Estimates

The critical accounting policy that is both important to the portrayal of Farmer Mac’s financial condition and results of operations and requires complex, subjective judgments is the accounting policy for the allowance for losses. For a discussion of Farmer Mac’s critical accounting policy, changes implemented in its methodology for determining its allowance for losses as of September 30, 2005, as well as Farmer Mac’s use of estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes for the periods presented, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Critical Accounting Policy and Estimates” in the Corporation’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005, as filed with the SEC on November 9, 2006.

Results of Operations

Overview. Net (loss)/income available to common stockholders for third quarter 2006 was $(6.3) million or $(0.58) per diluted common share, compared to $19.3 million or $1.70 per diluted common share for third quarter 2005. Net income available to common stockholders for the nine months ended September 30, 2006 was $22.2 million or $1.98 per diluted common share, compared to $35.2 million or $3.05 per diluted common share for the nine months ended September 30, 2005. These decreases were due principally to the effects of losses on financial derivatives used to manage interest rate risk. Although Farmer Mac’s financial derivatives provided highly effective economic hedges of that risk, accounting under SFAS 133 caused the losses on the financial derivatives to be reflected in net income for the quarter while the offsetting economic benefits of the hedged items were not. Similarly, the gains on financial derivatives for the previous two quarters were reflected in net income, while the offsetting economic losses on the hedged items were not. As a result of Farmer Mac’s classification of its financial derivatives as undesignated hedges under SFAS 133, factors unrelated to the performance of the Corporation’s business, such as changes in interest rates, may cause the Corporation’s earnings under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) to be more volatile than - and even counter-directional to - the underlying economics of its business operations.

During third quarter 2006, Farmer Mac recorded losses of $20.3 million on financial derivatives. Farmer Mac recorded gains on financial derivatives in first and second quarters 2006 of $11.7 million and $9.9 million, bringing the total gain on financial derivatives for the nine months ending September 30, 2006 to $1.3 million.  By comparison, Farmer Mac recorded gains of $12.0 million and $7.3 million on financial derivatives for third quarter 2005 and the nine months ended September 30, 2005, respectively. Notwithstanding the increased volatility of its GAAP results, the Corporation intends to continue to use financial derivatives to manage interest rate risk to optimize its economic performance. Consistent with the latter, the Board and management of Farmer Mac focus on the long-term growth of its business and its overall return to stockholders, rather than the short-term volatility of GAAP net income.

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As part of Farmer Mac’s continuing evaluation of the overall credit quality of its portfolio, the state of the U.S. agricultural economy, the recent upward trends in agricultural land values, and the level of Farmer Mac’s outstanding guarantees and commitments, Farmer Mac determined that the appropriate allowance for losses as of September 30, 2006 was $5.1 million. This resulted in the release of $1.2 million from the allowance for losses in third quarter 2006. As of September 30, 2006, the allowance for losses was $5.1 million and 11 basis points relative to the outstanding post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I portfolio, compared to $8.7 million and 20 basis points as of December 31, 2005.

As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac’s 90-day delinquencies (Farmer Mac I loans purchased or placed under Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities or long-term standby purchase commitments (“LTSPCs”) after changes to Farmer Mac’s statutory charter in 1996 that were 90 days or more past due, in foreclosure, restructured after delinquency, or in bankruptcy, excluding loans performing under either their original loan terms or a court-approved bankruptcy plan) were $28.4 million, representing 0.62 percent of the principal balance of all loans held and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs, down from $40.6 million (0.95 percent) as of September 30, 2005.

During third quarter 2006, Farmer Mac:
 
 
·
added $177.9 million of Farmer Mac I loans under LTSPCs;
 
·
guaranteed $1.0 billion of AgVantage securities;
 
·
purchased $18.3 million of newly originated and current seasoned Farmer Mac I loans;
 
·
purchased $74.2 million of Farmer Mac II USDA-guaranteed portions of loans; and
 
·
converted $341.2 million of pre-existing LTSPCs into Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities.

As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac’s outstanding program volume was $7.1 billion, which represented approximately 14.8 percent of management’s estimate of a $48.0 billion market of eligible agricultural mortgage loans.

Farmer Mac’s ongoing guarantee and commitment fee income is earned on the cumulative outstanding principal balance of Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities and loans underlying LTSPCs. Accordingly, guarantee and commitment fees increase or decrease through changes in periodic business volume in proportion to the change in that cumulative outstanding principal balance, not in proportion to the change in periodic volume.

Set forth below is a more detailed discussion of Farmer Mac’s results of operations.

Net Interest Income. Net interest income was $9.1 million for third quarter 2006, compared to $11.5 million for third quarter 2005. Net interest income was $29.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2006, compared to $38.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2005. The net interest yield was 89 basis points for the nine months ended September 30, 2006, compared to 135 basis points for the nine months ended September 30, 2005. Net interest income includes guarantee fees for loans purchased after April 1, 2001 (the effective date of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 140, Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities (“SFAS 140”)), but not for loans purchased prior to that date. The effect of SFAS 140 was the classification of approximately $2.6 million (7 basis points) of guarantee fee income as interest income for the nine months ended September 30, 2006, compared to $2.8 million (10 basis points) for the nine months ended September 30, 2005.

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As discussed in Note 6 to the condensed consolidated financial statements, Farmer Mac accounts for its financial derivatives as undesignated financial derivatives. Accordingly, the Corporation classifies the net interest income and expense realized on financial derivatives as gains and losses on financial derivatives and trading assets. For the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2005, this classification resulted in decrease of the net interest yield of 9 basis points and 48 basis points, respectively.

The net interest yields for the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2005 included the benefits of yield maintenance payments of 9 basis points and 12 basis points, respectively. Yield maintenance payments represent the present value of expected future interest income streams and accelerate the recognition of interest income from the related loans. Because the timing and size of these payments vary greatly, variations do not necessarily indicate positive or negative trends to gauge future financial results. For the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2005, the after-tax effects of yield maintenance payments on net income and diluted earnings per share were $1.9 million or $0.17 per diluted share and $2.2 million or $0.19 per diluted share, respectively.

The following table provides information regarding interest-earning assets and funding for the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2005. The balance of non-accruing loans is included in the average balance of interest-earning loans presented, although no related income is included in the income figures presented. Therefore, as the balance of non-accruing loans increases or decreases, the net interest yield will decrease or increase accordingly. Net interest income and the yield will also fluctuate due to the uncertainty of the timing and size of yield maintenance payments. The average rate earned on cash and cash equivalents reflects the increase in short-term market rates during the first nine months of 2006. The increase in the average rate for investments reflects the general increase in short-term rates and the short-term or floating rate nature of most investments acquired or reset during the first nine months of 2006. The higher average rate on loans and Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities during the first nine months of 2006 reflects the increase in market rates during the first part of 2006, which affected the rates on loans acquired or reset during that period and outstanding during the first nine months of 2006. The higher average rate on Farmer Mac’s notes payable due within one year is consistent with general trends in average short-term rates during the periods presented. The upward trend in the average rate on notes payable due after one year reflects the retirement of older debt and the issuance of new debt at higher market rates during the first nine months of 2006.

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Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30, 2006
 
September 30, 2005
 
   
Average
Balance
 
Income/
Expense
 
Average
Rate
 
Average
Balance
 
Income/
Expense
 
Average
Rate
 
   
(dollars in thousands)
 
Interest-earning assets:
                         
Cash and cash equivalents
 
$
691,632
   
$
25,667
     
4.95
%  
$
475,649
   
$
10,607
     
2.97
%
Investments
   
1,709,212
   
66,481
   
5.19
%
 
1,180,011
   
36,634
   
4.14
%
Loans and Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
   
2,057,086
   
91,014
   
5.90
%
 
2,121,657
   
90,237
   
5.67
%
Total interest-earning assets
   
4,457,930
   
183,162
   
5.48
%
 
3,777,317
   
137,478
   
4.85
%
                                       
Funding:
                                     
Notes payable due within one year
   
2,565,391
   
92,287
   
4.80
%
 
1,875,762
   
41,628
   
2.96
%
Notes payable due after one year
   
1,679,403
   
61,023
   
4.84
%
 
1,701,524
   
57,519
   
4.51
%
Total interest-bearing liabilities
   
4,244,794
   
153,310
   
4.82
%
 
3,577,286
   
99,147
   
3.70
%
Net non-interest-bearing funding
   
213,136
               
200,031
             
Total funding
 
$
4,457,930
   
153,310
   
4.59
%
$
3,777,317
   
99,147
   
3.50
%
Net interest income/yield
       
$
29,852
   
0.89
%
     
$
38,331
   
1.35
%
 
The following table sets forth information regarding the changes in the components of Farmer Mac’s net interest income for the periods indicated. For each category, information is provided on changes attributable to changes in volume (change in volume multiplied by old rate) and changes in rate (change in rate multiplied by old volume). Combined rate/volume variances, the third element of the calculation, are allocated based on their relative size. The increases in income due to changes in rate reflect the short-term or adjustable-rate nature of the assets or liabilities and the general increases in short-term market rates.

   
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2006
Compared to Nine Months Ended
September 30, 2005
 
   
Increase/(Decrease) Due to
 
   
Rate
 
Volume
 
Total
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Income from interest-earning assets:
                   
Cash and cash equivalents
 
$
8,945
   
$
6,115
   
$
15,060
 
Investments
   
10,761
   
19,086
   
29,847
 
Loans and Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
   
3,571
   
(2,794
)
 
777
 
Total
   
23,277
   
22,407
   
45,684
 
Expense from interest-bearing liabilities
   
33,526
   
20,637
   
54,163
 
Change in net interest income
 
$
(10,249
)
$
1,770
 
$
(8,479
)

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Guarantee and Commitment Fees. Guarantee and commitment fees, which compensate Farmer Mac for assuming the credit risk on loans underlying Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs, were $5.5 million for third quarter 2006 and $15.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2006, compared to $4.8 million and $14.7 million, respectively, for the same periods in 2005. The effect of SFAS 140 was the classification as interest income of guarantee fees of $0.9 million for third quarter 2006 and $2.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2006, compared to $0.9 million and $2.8 million, respectively, for the same periods in 2005, although management considers the amounts to have been earned in consideration for the assumption of credit risk. That portion of the difference or “spread” between the cost of Farmer Mac’s debt funding for loans and the yield on post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities held on its books compensates for credit risk. When a post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Security is sold to a third party, Farmer Mac continues to receive the guarantee fee component of that spread, which continues to compensate Farmer Mac for its assumption of credit risk. The portion of the spread that compensates for interest rate risk would not typically continue to be received by Farmer Mac if the asset were sold, except to the extent attributable to any retained interest-only strip.

Expenses. General and administrative expenses were $2.4 million for third quarter 2006 and $7.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2006, compared to $2.6 million and $6.8 million, respectively, for the same periods in 2005. Compensation and employee benefits were $3.2 million for third quarter 2006 and $8.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2006, compared to $2.2 million and $5.9 million, respectively, for the same periods in 2005. For third quarter 2006 and the nine months ended September 30, 2006, compensation costs were higher primarily due to expense related to stock options of $0.7 million and $1.7 million, respectively. The comparable periods in the prior year did not include expense related to stock options. For more information on stock option expense and the adoption of SFAS 123(R) on January 1, 2006, see Note 1(e).

Regulatory fee expense for each of the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and 2005 were $1.8 million and $1.7 million, respectively. The Farm Credit Administration (“FCA”) has advised the Corporation that its estimated fees for the federal fiscal year ended September 30, 2006 will be $2.4 million. After the end of a federal government fiscal year, FCA may revise its prior year estimated assessments to reflect actual costs incurred, and has issued both additional assessments and refunds in the past. Farmer Mac expects all of the above-mentioned expenses and regulatory fees to continue at approximately the same levels through 2006.

During third quarter 2006, Farmer Mac released $1.2 million from the allowance for losses, compared to a release of $5.6 million for third quarter 2005. During the nine months ended September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac released $2.9 million from the allowance for losses, compared to a release of $6.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2005. Included in the releases from the allowance for losses for third quarter 2005 and the nine months ended September 30, 2005, was a $4.8 million decrease in the allowance for losses as a result of a change in accounting estimate. See “—Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk Management—Credit Risk” for additional information regarding Farmer Mac’s provision for losses, provision for loan losses and Farmer Mac’s methodology for determining its allowance for losses. As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac’s total allowance for losses was $5.1 million, or 11 basis points of outstanding loans held or loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities (excluding AgVantage securities) and LTSPCs, compared to $8.7 million and 20 basis points as of December 31, 2005.

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Gains and Losses on Financial Derivatives and Trading Assets. SFAS 133 requires the change in the fair values of financial derivatives to be reflected in a company’s net income or accumulated other comprehensive income. As discussed in Note 6 of the condensed consolidated financial statements, the Corporation accounts for its financial derivatives as undesignated financial derivatives. The pre-tax net effect of gains and losses on financial derivatives and trading assets recorded in Farmer Mac’s consolidated statements of operations was a net loss of $20.3 million for third quarter 2006 and a net gain of $1.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2006, compared to gains of $12.0 million and $7.3 million, respectively, for the same periods in 2005.

Farmer Mac records financial derivatives at fair value on its balance sheet with the related changes in fair value recognized in the consolidated statement of operations. Although the Corporation’s use of financial derivatives achieves its economic and risk management objectives, its classification of financial derivatives as undesignated hedges under SFAS 133 allows factors unrelated to the economic performance of the Corporation’s business, such as changes in interest rates, to increase the volatility - even the direction - of the Corporation’s GAAP earnings.

Farmer Mac enters into financial derivative transactions to protect against risk from the effects of market price or interest rate movements on the value of assets, future cash flows and debt issuance, not for trading or speculative purposes. Farmer Mac enters into interest rate swap contracts to adjust the characteristics of its short-term debt to match more closely the cash flow and duration characteristics of its longer-term mortgage and other assets, and also to adjust the characteristics of its long-term debt to match more closely the cash flow and duration characteristics of its short-term assets, thereby reducing interest rate risk and also to derive an overall lower effective fixed-rate cost of borrowing than would otherwise be available to Farmer Mac in the conventional debt market. Specifically, interest rate swaps convert economically the variable cash flows related to the forecasted issuance of short-term debt to effectively fixed-rate medium-term and long-term notes that match the anticipated duration, repricing and interest rate characteristics of the corresponding assets. Since this strategy provides Farmer Mac with approximately the same cash flows as those that are inherent in the issuance of medium-term notes, Farmer Mac uses either the bond market or the swap market based upon their relative pricing efficiencies.

Farmer Mac uses callable interest rate swaps (in conjunction with the issuance of short-term debt) as an alternative to callable medium-term notes with equivalently structured maturities and call options. The call options on the swaps are designed to match the implicit prepayment options on those mortgage assets without prepayment protection. The blended durations of the swaps are also designed to match the duration of the related mortgages over their estimated lives. If the mortgages prepay, the swaps can be called and the short-term debt repaid; if the mortgages do not prepay, the swaps remain outstanding and the short-term debt is rolled over, effectively providing fixed-rate callable funding over the lives of the related mortgages. Thus, the economics of the assets are closely matched to the economics of the interest rate swap and funding combination.
 
Business Volume. New business volume for third quarter 2006 was $1.3 billion, up from $657.9 million in second quarter 2006. In July 2006, Farmer Mac guaranteed $1.0 billion of AgVantage securities supported by a five-year mortgage-backed obligation of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLife”) backed by agricultural real estate mortgage loans. This transaction was in addition to the similar first quarter transaction in which Farmer Mac guaranteed $500.0 million of AgVantage securities supported by a MetLife agricultural mortgage-backed obligation. Additionally, during third quarter 2006 Farmer Mac added $177.9 million of Farmer Mac I loans under LTSPCs and purchased $74.2 million of Farmer Mac II USDA-guaranteed portions of loans.

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All of the above-referenced transactions were products of Farmer Mac’s ongoing efforts to diversify its marketing focus to include large program transactions that emphasize high asset quality, with greater protection against adverse credit performance and commensurately lower compensation for the assumption of credit risk and administrative costs. While Farmer Mac’s new business volume has improved as a result of those efforts, its future business with agricultural mortgage lenders may still be constrained by:
 
 
·
high levels of available capital and liquidity of agricultural lenders;
 
·
alternative sources of funding and credit enhancement for agricultural lenders; and
 
·
increased competition in the secondary market for agricultural mortgage loans.

Management believes that legislative or regulatory developments or interpretations of Farmer Mac’s statutory charter could adversely affect Farmer Mac, its ability to offer new products, the ability or motivation of certain lenders to participate in its programs or the terms of any such participation, or increase the cost of regulation and related corporate activities. See “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of Farmer Mac’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005, as filed with the SEC on November 9, 2006.

For a more detailed discussion of the above factors and the related effects on Farmer Mac’s business volume, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Outlook for 2006” in the Corporation’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005, as filed with the SEC on November 9, 2006.

Looking ahead, Farmer Mac is developing innovative ways to serve the financing needs of rural America, and remains confident of opportunities for increased business volume and income growth as a result of the Corporation’s product development and customer service efforts. Farmer Mac’s marketing initiatives are generating business opportunities for 2006 and, it believes, beyond. Current initiatives include:
 
 
·
an ongoing alliance with the American Bankers Association (“ABA”), under which Farmer Mac agreed to facilitate access and improve pricing to ABA member institutions and the ABA agreed to promote member participation in the Farmer Mac I program;
 
·
expanded use of AgVantage transactions, targeting highly-rated financial institutions with large agricultural mortgage portfolios; and
 
·
agribusiness and rural development loans associated with agriculture, in fulfillment of Farmer Mac’s Congressional mission.
 
Some of the agribusiness and rural development initiatives will require Farmer Mac to consider credit risks that expand upon or differ from those the Corporation has accepted previously. Farmer Mac will use underwriting standards appropriate to those credit risks, and likely will draw upon outside expertise to analyze and evaluate the credit and funding aspects of loans submitted pursuant to those initiatives. While Farmer Mac is seeking to expand its mix of loan types within the scope of its Congressional charter, it is too early to assess the probability of success of these efforts. Farmer Mac believes that prospects for large portfolio transactions similar to those that have accounted for a significant portion of Farmer Mac’s previous growth, including the previously mentioned January and July 2006 AgVantage transactions and the April 2006 LTSPC transaction, continue to exist. No assurance can be given at this time as to the certainty or timing of similar transactions in the future.

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The following tables set forth the amount of all Farmer Mac I and Farmer Mac II loan purchase and guarantee activities for newly originated and current seasoned loans during the periods indicated:

   
Three Months Ended
 
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30,
2006
 
September 30,
2005
 
September 30,
2006
 
September 30,
2005
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Loan purchase and guarantee and commitment activity:
                 
Farmer Mac I:
                 
Loans
 
$
18,253
 
$
39,821
 
$
74,627
 
$
78,743
 
LTSPCs
   
177,885
   
91,783
   
821,635
   
221,484
 
AgVantage
   
1,000,000
   
-
   
1,500,000
   
-
 
Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities
   
74,217
   
52,181
   
180,548
   
140,938
 
Total purchases, guarantees and commitments
 
$
1,270,355
 
$
183,785
 
$
2,576,810
 
$
441,165
 
                           
Farmer Mac I Guaranteed
                         
Securities issuances:
                         
Sold
 
$
135
 
$
2,061
 
$
3,168
 
$
24,073
 
Retained
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
Loans previously under LTSPCs exchanged for Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
   
341,164
   
-
   
891,278
   
-
 
Total
 
$
341,299
 
$
2,061
 
$
894,446
 
$
24,073
 
 
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To fulfill its guarantee and commitment obligations, Farmer Mac purchases defaulted loans underlying Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs, all of which are at least 90 days delinquent at the time of purchase. The following table presents Farmer Mac’s loan purchases of newly originated and current seasoned loans and defaulted loans purchased underlying Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs:
 
   
Three Months Ended
 
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30,
2006
 
September 30,
2005
 
September 30,
2006
 
September 30,
2005
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Farmer Mac I newly originated and current seasoned loan purchases
 
$
18,253
 
$
39,821
 
$
74,627
 
$
78,743
 
                           
Defaulted loans purchased underlying off-balance sheet Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities
   
-
   
913
   
506
   
2,508
 
                           
Defaulted loans underlying on-balance sheet Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities transferred to loans
   
854
   
6,103
   
1,667
   
7,277
 
                           
Defaulted loans purchased underlying LTSPCs
   
274
   
202
   
3,520
   
1,237
 
                           
Total loan purchases
 
$
19,381
 
$
47,039
 
$
80,320
 
$
89,765
 

The weighted-average age of the Farmer Mac I newly originated and current seasoned loans purchased during third quarter 2006 and during third quarter 2005 was less than one month. Of the Farmer Mac I newly originated and current seasoned loans purchased during third quarter 2006 and third quarter 2005, 66 percent and 50 percent, respectively, had principal amortization periods longer than the maturity date, resulting in balloon payments at maturity, with a weighted-average remaining term to maturity of 15.2 years and 14.6 years, respectively. The weighted-average age of delinquent loans purchased out of securitized pools and LTSPCs during third quarter 2006 and third quarter 2005 was 10.4 years and 5.7 years, respectively.

As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac had 163 approved loan sellers eligible to participate in the Farmer Mac I program, ranging from single-office to multi-branch institutions, spanning community banks, FCS institutions, mortgage companies, commercial banks and insurance companies. The increase in the number of approved Farmer Mac I loan sellers from 116 as of September 30, 2005 is principally a result of two factors: (1) an increase in the number of new Farmer Mac Sellers precipitated largely by the new American Bankers Association/Farmer Mac Alliance; and (2) a new, customized seller recertification process that is conducted quarterly instead of annually. In addition to participating directly in the Farmer Mac I program, some of the approved loan sellers enable other lenders to participate indirectly in the Farmer Mac I program by managing correspondent networks of lenders from which they purchase loans to sell to Farmer Mac. As of September 30, 2006, approximately 100 lenders were participating in those networks. Sellers in the Farmer Mac II program consist mostly of community and regional banks. As of September 30, 2006, more than 300 lenders were participating, directly or indirectly, in one or both of the Farmer Mac I or Farmer Mac II programs.

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USDA’s most recent publications (as available on USDA’s website as of October 22, 2006) forecast:
 
 
·
2006 net cash farm income to be $63.2 billion, following record years of $81.2 billion in 2005 and $81.5 billion in 2004;
 
·
2006 net farm income to be $54.4 billion, which is a decrease of $19.4 billion from the 2005 figure of $73.8 billion and slightly below the 10-year average net farm income of $55.7 billion;
 
·
total direct U.S. government payments to be $18.2 billion in 2006, down 25 percent from $24.3 billion in 2005;
 
·
countercyclical payments are forecast to increase from $4.1 billion in 2005 to $4.2 billion in 2006 with primarily sorghum, cotton, and peanut producers expected to receive payments;
 
·
marketing loan benefits including loan deficiency payments, marketing loan gains, and certificate exchange gains are projected to decrease from $7.0 billion in 2005 to $2.9 billion in 2006;
 
·
the value of U.S. farm real estate to increase 7.7 percent in 2006 to $1.64 trillion, as compared to the 2005 increase of 16 percent, and the general economy to support further growth in farmland values; and
 
·
the amount of farm real estate debt to increase by 4.0 percent in 2006 to $119.1 billion, compared to $114.3 billion in 2005.

The USDA forecasts referenced above relate to U.S. agriculture generally, but should be favorable for Farmer Mac’s financial condition relative to its exposure to outstanding guarantees and commitments, as they indicate solid borrower cash flows and generally increased values in U.S. farm real estate.

Balance Sheet Review

During the nine months ended September 30, 2006, there were $49.2 million of net principal paydowns in program assets (Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities and loans) offset by a $620.1 million increase in the portfolio of investment securities and cash and cash equivalents. Consistent with the net increase in assets during the period, total liabilities increased $552.4 million from December 31, 2005 to September 30, 2006. For further information regarding off-balance sheet program activities, see “—Off-Balance Sheet Program Activities” below.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2006, accumulated other comprehensive income decreased $7.4 million, which is primarily the net effect of a $7.8 million decrease in after-tax unrealized gains on securities available for sale. Accumulated other comprehensive income is not a component of Farmer Mac’s core capital or regulatory capital.

Farmer Mac is required to hold capital at the higher of the statutory minimum capital requirement or the amount required by the risk-based capital stress test. As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac’s core capital totaled $237.0 million, compared to $244.8 million as of December 31, 2005. As of September 30, 2006, core capital exceeded Farmer Mac’s statutory minimum capital requirement of $171.7 million by $65.3 million.

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Farmer Mac was in compliance with its risk-based capital standards as of September 30, 2006. As of September 30, 2006, the risk-based capital stress test generated a regulatory capital requirement of $46.3 million, up from the $29.5 million requirement as of December 31, 2005. The increase in the risk-based capital requirement from December 31, 2005 to September 30, 2006 was attributable to an increase in Farmer Mac’s outstanding business volume and changes in the interest rate environment during that period. As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac’s regulatory capital of $242.1 million exceeded the risk-based capital requirement by approximately $195.8 million. On November 17, 2005, FCA published in the Federal Register a proposed rule that would revise the risk-based capital regulation. For further discussion of that proposed rule, see “Regulatory Matters.”
 
Off-Balance Sheet Program Activities
 
Farmer Mac offers approved agricultural and rural residential mortgage lenders two off-balance sheet alternatives to increase their liquidity or lending capacity while retaining the cash flow benefits of their loans: (1) Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities, which are available through either the Farmer Mac I program or the Farmer Mac II program; and (2) LTSPCs, which are available only through the Farmer Mac I program. Both of these alternatives result in the creation of off-balance sheet obligations for Farmer Mac in the ordinary course of its business. See Note 3 to the interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for further information regarding Farmer Mac’s off-balance sheet program activities.
 
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk Management

Interest Rate Risk. Farmer Mac is subject to interest rate risk on all assets held for investment because of possible timing differences in the cash flows of the assets and related liabilities. This risk is primarily related to loans held and on-balance sheet Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities due to the ability of borrowers to prepay their mortgages before the scheduled maturities, thereby increasing the risk of asset and liability cash flow mismatches. Cash flow mismatches in a changing interest rate environment can reduce the earnings of the Corporation if assets repay sooner than expected and the resulting cash flows must be reinvested in lower-yielding investments when Farmer Mac’s funding costs cannot be correspondingly reduced, or if assets repay more slowly than expected and the associated debt must be replaced by higher-cost debt.

Yield maintenance provisions and other prepayment penalties contained in many agricultural mortgage loans reduce, but do not eliminate, prepayment risk, particularly in the case of a defaulted loan where yield maintenance may not be collected. Those provisions require borrowers to make an additional payment when they prepay their loans so that, when reinvested with the prepaid principal, yield maintenance payments generate substantially the same cash flows that would have been generated had the loan not prepaid. Those provisions create a disincentive to prepayment and compensate the Corporation for its interest rate risks to a large degree. As of September 30, 2006, 54 percent of the outstanding balance of all loans held and loans underlying on-balance sheet Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities (including 79 percent of all loans with fixed interest rates) were covered by yield maintenance provisions and other prepayment penalties. Of the Farmer Mac I fixed rate loans purchased in third quarter 2006, 4 percent had yield maintenance or another form of prepayment protection. As of September 30, 2006, none of the USDA-guaranteed portions underlying Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities had yield maintenance provisions; however, 17 percent contained prepayment penalties. Of the USDA-guaranteed portions purchased in third quarter 2006, 5 percent contained other forms of prepayment penalties.

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As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac had $804.6 million of cash and cash equivalents and $1.9 billion of investment securities. Cash equivalents and investment securities pose only limited interest rate risk to Farmer Mac, due to their closely matched funding. Farmer Mac’s cash equivalents mature within three months and are match-funded with discount notes having similar maturities. As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac’s investment securities consisted of $816.0 million of floating rate securities that have rates that adjust within one year. These floating rate investments are funded using:
 
 
·
a series of discount note issuances in which each successive discount note is issued and matures on or about the corresponding interest rate reset date of the related investment;
 
·
floating-rate notes having similar rate reset provisions as the related investment; or
 
·
fixed-rate notes swapped to floating rates having similar reset provisions as the related investment.

An important “stress test” of Farmer Mac’s exposure to long-term interest rate risk is the measurement of the sensitivity of its market value of equity (“MVE”) to yield curve shocks. MVE represents the present value of all future cash flows from on- and off-balance sheet assets, liabilities and financial derivatives, discounted at current interest rates and spreads. The following schedule summarizes the results of Farmer Mac’s MVE sensitivity analysis as of September 30, 2006 and December 31, 2005 to an immediate and instantaneous parallel shift in the yield curve.

   
Percentage Change in MVE from Base Case
Interest Rate
Scenario
 
September 30,
2006
 
December 31,
2005
+ 300 bp
 
-7.7%
 
-6.2%
+ 200 bp
 
-4.4%
 
-3.6%
+ 100 bp
 
-1.7%
 
-1.4%
- 100 bp
 
0.1%
 
0.0%
- 200 bp
 
-0.7%
 
-0.7%
- 300 bp
 
-1.5%
 
-1.5%

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During third quarter 2006, Farmer Mac maintained a low level of interest rate sensitivity through ongoing asset and liability management activities. As of September 30, 2006, a uniform or “parallel” increase of 100 basis points would have increased Farmer Mac’s net interest income (“NII”), a shorter-term measure of interest rate risk, by 1.6 percent, while a parallel decrease of 100 basis points would have decreased NII by 3.5 percent. Farmer Mac also measures the sensitivity of both MVE and NII to a variety of non-parallel interest rate shocks, including flattening and steepening yield curve scenarios. As of September 30, 2006, both MVE and NII showed similar or lesser sensitivity to non-parallel shocks as to the parallel shocks. As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac’s effective duration gap, another standard measure of interest rate risk that measures the difference between the sensitivities of assets compared to that of liabilities, was plus 0.6 months, compared to plus 0.5 months as of December 31, 2005. Duration matching helps to maintain the correlation of cash flows and stable portfolio earnings even when interest rates are not stable. Farmer Mac believes the relative insensitivity of its MVE and NII to both parallel and non-parallel interest rate shocks, and its duration gap, indicate that Farmer Mac’s approach to managing its interest rate risk exposures is effective.
 
As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac had $1.7 billion combined notional amount of interest rate swaps with terms ranging from 1 to 15 years. Of those interest rate swaps, $824.2 million were floating-to-fixed rate interest rate swaps, $527.6 million were fixed-to-floating interest rate swaps and $355.4 million were basis swaps.

Farmer Mac uses financial derivatives for hedging purposes, not for trading or speculative purposes. As discussed in Note 6 to the condensed consolidated financial statements, Farmer Mac accounts for its financial derivatives as undesignated financial derivatives. All of Farmer Mac’s financial derivative transactions are conducted under standard collateralized agreements that limit Farmer Mac’s potential credit exposure to any counterparty. As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac had uncollateralized net exposure of $0.7 million to one counterparty.

Credit Risk. Farmer Mac’s primary exposure to credit risk is the risk of loss resulting from the inability of borrowers to repay their mortgages in conjunction with a deficiency in the value of the collateral relative to the amount outstanding on the mortgage and the costs of liquidation. Farmer Mac has established underwriting, appraisal and documentation standards for Farmer Mac I agricultural mortgage loans to mitigate the risk of loss from borrower defaults and to provide guidance concerning the management, administration and conduct of underwriting and appraisals to all participating sellers and potential sellers in its programs.
Farmer Mac’s allowance for losses is presented in three components on its consolidated balance sheet:
 
 
·
an “Allowance for loan losses” on loans held for investment;
 
·
a valuation allowance on real estate owned, which is included in the balance sheet under “Real estate owned”;
 
·
an allowance for losses on loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs, which is included in the balance sheet under “Reserve for losses.”

Farmer Mac’s provision for losses is presented in two components on its consolidated statement of operations:
 
 
·
a “Provision for loan losses,” which represents losses on Farmer Mac’s loans held for investment; and
 
·
a “Provision for losses,” which represents losses on loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs and real estate owned.

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Prior to September 30, 2005, Farmer Mac estimated its inherent probable losses using a systematic process that began with management’s evaluation of the results of a proprietary loan pool simulation and guarantee fee model. That model drew upon historical information from a data set of agricultural mortgage loans screened to include only those loans with credit characteristics similar to those eligible for Farmer Mac’s programs. The model offered historical loss experience on agricultural mortgage loans similar to those on which Farmer Mac had assumed credit risk, but over a longer term than Farmer Mac’s own experience. The results generated by that model were then modified, as necessary, by the application of management’s judgment. Prior to September 30, 2005, Farmer Mac did not believe that its own historical portfolio lending and loss experience was statistically sufficient to estimate the inherent probable losses in its portfolio.

As of September 30, 2005, Farmer Mac believed it had accumulated and analyzed sufficient data from its own historical portfolio lending, loss experience, and credit trends to estimate its inherent probable losses based upon its own historical experience. Farmer Mac believes that estimating its allowance for losses based on data derived from its own portfolio reflects the characteristics of credit trends within the portfolio. Farmer Mac recorded the effects of that change as a change in accounting estimate, which resulted in a $4.8 million decrease in the allowance for losses as of September 30, 2005.

Farmer Mac’s current methodology for determining its allowance for losses incorporates the Corporation’s proprietary automated loan classification system. That system scores loans based on criteria such as historical repayment performance, loan seasoning, loan size and loan-to-value ratio. For the purposes of the loss allowance methodology, the loans in Farmer Mac’s portfolio of loans and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs have been scored and classified for each calendar quarter since first quarter 2000. The new allowance methodology captures the migration of loan scores across concurrent and overlapping 3-year time horizons and calculates loss rates separately within each loan classification for (1) loans underlying LTSPCs and (2) loans held and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities. The calculated loss rates are applied to the current classification distribution of Farmer Mac’s portfolio to estimate inherent losses, on the assumption that the historical credit losses and trends used to calculate loss rates will continue in the future. Management evaluates this assumption by taking into consideration several factors, including:
 
 
·
economic conditions;
 
·
geographic and agricultural commodity/product concentrations in the portfolio;
 
·
the credit profile of the portfolio;
 
·
delinquency trends of the portfolio; and
 
·
historical charge-off and recovery activities of the portfolio.
 
If, based on that evaluation, management concludes that the assumption is not valid due to other more compelling indicators, the loss allowance calculation is modified by the addition of further assumptions to capture current portfolio trends and characteristics that differ from historical experience.

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As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac concluded that the credit profile of its portfolio was consistent with Farmer Mac’s historical credit profile and trends. Management believes that its use of this methodology produces a reliable estimate of inherent probable losses, as of the balance sheet date, for all loans held, real estate owned and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 5, Accounting for Contingencies and Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 114, Accounting by Creditors for Impairment of a Loan, as amended.

No allowance for losses has been made for loans underlying Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities issued prior to the 1996 Act, AgVantage securities or Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities. Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities issued prior to the 1996 Act are supported by unguaranteed first loss subordinated interests, which are expected to exceed the estimated credit losses on those loans. Each AgVantage security is a general obligation of an issuing institution approved by Farmer Mac and is collateralized by eligible mortgage loans. As of September 30, 2006, there were no probable losses inherent in Farmer Mac’s AgVantage securities due to the high credit quality of the obligors, as well as the underlying collateral. The guaranteed portions collateralizing Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities are guaranteed by the USDA. Each USDA guarantee is an obligation backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac had not experienced any credit losses on any Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities issued prior to the 1996 Act, AgVantage securities or Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities and does not expect to incur any such losses in the future.

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The following table summarizes the changes in the components of Farmer Mac’s allowance for losses for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2005:

   
September 30, 2006
 
   
Allowance
for Loan
Losses
 
REO
Valuation
Allowance
 
Reserve
for Losses
 
Total
Allowance
for Losses
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Three Months Ended:
                 
Beginning balance
 
$ 2,734
 
$ -
 
$ 3,518
 
$ 6,252
 
Provision/(recovery) for losses
   
(525
)
 
-
   
(643
)
 
(1,168
)
Charge-offs
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
Recoveries
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
Ending balance
 
$
2,209
 
$
-
 
$
2,875
 
$
5,084
 
                           
Nine Months Ended:
                         
Beginning balance
 
$
4,876
 
$
-
 
$
3,777
 
$
8,653
 
Provision/(recovery) for losses
   
(2,132
)
 
155
   
(902
)
 
(2,879
)
Charge-offs
   
(900
)
 
(155
)
 
-
   
(1,055
)
Recoveries
   
365
   
-
   
-
   
365
 
Ending balance
 
$
2,209
 
$
-
 
$
2,875
 
$
5,084
 

   
September 30, 2005
 
   
Allowance
for Loan
Losses
 
REO
Valuation
Allowance
 
Reserve
for Losses
 
Total
Allowance
for Losses
 
   
(in thousands)
 
Three Months Ended:
                 
Beginning balance
 
$ 3,670
 
$ -
 
$ 12,394
 
$ 16,064
 
Provision/(recovery) for losses
   
(816
)
 
85
   
(96
)
 
(827
)
Charge-offs
   
(20
)
 
(85
)
 
-
   
(105
)
Recoveries
   
553
   
-
   
-
   
553
 
Change in accounting estimate
   
3,281
   
-
   
(8,070
)
 
(4,789
)
Ending balance
 
$
6,668
 
$
-
 
$
4,228
 
$
10,896
 
                           
Nine Months Ended:
                         
Beginning balance
 
$
4,395
 
$
-
 
$
12,706
 
$
17,101
 
Provision/(recovery) for losses
   
(1,603
)
 
205
   
(408
)
 
(1,806
)
Charge-offs
   
(46
)
 
(205
)
 
-
   
(251
)
Recoveries
   
641
   
-
   
-
   
641
 
Change in accounting estimate
   
3,281
   
-
   
(8,070
)
 
(4,789
)
Ending balance
 
$
6,668
 
$
-
 
$
4,228
 
$
10,896
 
 
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During third quarter 2006, Farmer Mac released $1.2 million from the allowance for losses, compared to the release of $5.6 million in third quarter 2005. Included in the change in the allowance for losses for third quarter 2005 was a $4.8 million decrease in the allowance for losses as a result of a change in accounting estimate. During third quarter 2006, Farmer Mac did not have any charge-offs or recoveries against the allowance for losses. During third quarter 2005, Farmer Mac charged off $0.1 million in losses against the allowance for losses and had $0.5 million in recoveries for net recoveries of $0.4 million. There was no previously accrued or advanced interest on loans or Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities that was charged off in third quarter 2006 or third quarter 2005. As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac’s allowance for losses totaled $5.1 million, or 11 basis points of the outstanding principal balance of loans held and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities (excluding AgVantage securities) and LTSPCs, compared to $8.7 million (20 basis points) as of December 31, 2005.

As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac’s 90-day delinquencies totaled $28.4 million and represented 0.62 percent of the principal balance of all loans held and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities (excluding AgVantage securities) and LTSPCs, compared to $40.6 million (0.95 percent) as of September 30, 2005. As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac’s non-performing assets (which includes 90-day delinquencies, loans performing under either their original loan terms or a court-approved bankruptcy plan, and real estate owned) totaled $44.9 million and represented 0.97 percent of the principal balance of all loans held and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities (excluding AgVantage securities) and LTSPCs, compared to $64.2 million (1.50 percent) as of September 30, 2005. Loans that have been restructured after delinquency were insignificant and are included within the reported 90-day delinquency and non-performing asset disclosures. From quarter to quarter, Farmer Mac anticipates that 90-day delinquencies and non-performing assets will fluctuate, both in dollars and as a percentage of the outstanding portfolio, with higher levels likely at the end of the first and third quarters of each year corresponding to the semi-annual (January 1st and July 1st) payment characteristics of most Farmer Mac I loans.

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The following table presents historical information regarding Farmer Mac’s non-performing assets and 90-day delinquencies:

   
Outstanding
Post-1996 Act
Loans,
Guarantees (1),
LTSPCs,
and REO
 
Non-
performing
Assets
 
Percentage
 
Less
REO and
Performing
Bankruptcies
 
90-Day
Delinquencies
 
Percentage
 
   
(dollars in thousands)
 
As of:
                         
September 30, 2006
 
$
4,621,083
   
$
44,862
     
0.97
%  
$
16,425
   
$
28,437
     
0.62
%
June 30, 2006
   
4,633,841
   
40,083
   
0.87
%
 
19,075
   
21,008
   
0.46
%
March 31, 2006
   
4,224,669
   
49,475
   
1.17
%
 
20,713
   
28,762
   
0.68
%
December 31, 2005
   
4,399,189
   
48,764
   
1.11
%
 
23,303
   
25,461
   
0.58
%
September 30, 2005
   
4,273,268
   
64,186
   
1.50
%
 
23,602
   
40,584
   
0.95
%
June 30, 2005
   
4,360,670
   
60,696
   
1.39
%
 
23,925
   
36,771
   
0.85
%
March 31, 2005
   
4,433,087
   
70,349
   
1.59
%
 
24,561
   
45,788
   
1.04
%
December 31, 2004
   
4,642,208
   
50,636
   
1.09
%
 
25,353
   
25,283
   
0.55
%
September 30, 2004
   
4,756,839
   
75,022
   
1.58
%
 
27,438
   
47,584
   
1.01
%

(1)
Excludes loans underlying AgVantage securities.

As of September 30, 2006, approximately $1.4 billion (29.7 percent) of Farmer Mac’s outstanding loans held and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities (excluding AgVantage securities) and LTSPCs were in their peak delinquency and default years (approximately years three through five after origination), compared to $1.2 billion (28.4 percent) as of September 30, 2005.

As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac individually analyzed $21.8 million of its $60.8 million of impaired assets for collateral shortfalls against updated appraised values, other updated collateral valuations or discounted values. Farmer Mac evaluated the remaining $39.0 million of impaired assets for which updated valuations were not available in the aggregate in consideration of their similar risk characteristics and historical statistics. All of the $21.8 million of assets analyzed individually were adequately collateralized. Accordingly, Farmer Mac did not record any specific allowances for under-collateralized assets as of September 30, 2006. Farmer Mac’s non-specific or general allowances were $5.1 million as of September 30, 2006.

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As of September 30, 2006, the weighted-average original loan-to-value (“LTV”) ratio for all loans held and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs was 50.2 percent, and the weighted-average original LTV ratio for all post-1996 Act non-performing assets was 57.9 percent. The following table summarizes the post-1996 Act non-performing assets by original LTV ratio:

Distribution of Post-1996 Act Non-performing
Assets by Original LTV Ratio
as of September 30, 2006
 
(dollars in thousands)
 
Original LTV Ratio
   
Post-1996 Act
Non-performing Assets
   
Percentage
 
  0.00% to 40.00%
 
$
3,724
   
8
%
40.01% to 50.00%
   
8,106
   
18
%
50.01% to 60.00%
   
18,559
   
42
%
60.01% to 70.00%
   
14,002
   
31
%
70.01% to 80.00%
   
402
   
1
%
   80.01% +                  
   
69
   
0
%
Total
 
$
44,862
   
100
%

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The following table presents outstanding loans held and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs, post-1996 Act non-performing assets and specific allowances for losses as of September 30, 2006 by year of origination, geographic region and commodity/collateral type:

Farmer Mac I Post-1996 Act Non-performing Assets and Specific Allowance for Losses
 
   
Distribution of
Outstanding
Loans,
Guarantees and
LTSPCs
 
Outstanding
Loans,
Guarantees and
LTSPCs (1)
 
Post-1996 Act
Non-
performing
Assets (2)
 
Non-
performing
Asset Rate
 
Specific
Allowance
for Losses
 
   
(dollars in thousands)
 
By year of origination:
                 
 
 
Before 1996
   
12
%     
$
541,596
      
$
3,916
         
0.72
%     
$
-
 
1996
   
5
%
 
212,211
   
6,741
   
3.18
%
 
-
 
1997
   
6
%
 
265,190
   
4,137
   
1.56
%
 
-
 
1998
   
10
%
 
441,979
   
6,445
   
1.46
%
 
-
 
1999
   
10
%
 
464,052
   
12,069
   
2.60
%
 
-
 
2000
   
6
%
 
262,579
   
4,868
   
1.85
%
 
-
 
2001
   
9
%
 
405,899
   
4,806
   
1.18
%
 
-
 
2002
   
11
%
 
513,844
   
369
   
0.07
%
 
-
 
2003
   
9
%
 
485,321
   
904
   
0.19
%
 
-
 
2004
   
7
%
 
345,147
   
542
   
0.16
%
 
-
 
2005
   
10
%
 
457,526
   
65
   
0.01
%
 
-
 
2006
   
5
%
 
225,739
   
-
   
0.00
%
 
-
 
Total
   
100
%
$
4,621,083
 
$
44,862
   
0.97
%
$
-
 
                                 
By geographic region (3):
                               
Northwest
   
18
%
$
842,762
 
$
24,688
   
2.93
%
$
-
 
Southwest
   
47
%
 
2,195,070
   
10,442
   
0.48
%
 
-
 
Mid-North
   
16
%
 
718,053
   
4,026
   
0.56
%
 
-
 
Mid-South
   
8
%
 
347,400
   
2,879
   
0.83
%
 
-
 
Northeast
   
7
%
 
311,534
   
1,492
   
0.48
%
 
-
 
Southeast
   
4
%
 
206,264
   
1,335
   
0.65
%
 
-
 
Total
   
100
%
$
4,621,083
 
$
44,862
   
0.97
%
$
-
 
                                 
By commodity/collateral type:
                               
Crops
   
41
%
$
1,886,183
 
$
16,415
   
0.87
%
$
-
 
Permanent plantings
   
26
%
 
1,178,867
   
22,534
   
1.91
%
 
-
 
Livestock
   
25
%
 
1,140,424
   
4,488
   
0.39
%
 
-
 
Part-time farm/rural housing
   
6
%
 
289,753
   
1,425
   
0.49
%
 
-
 
Ag storage and processing
   
2
%
 
105,598
   
-
   
0.00
%
 
-
 
Other
   
0
%
 
20,258
   
-
   
0.00
%
 
-
 
Total
   
100
%
$
4,621,083
 
$
44,862
   
0.97
%
$
-
 
 
(1)
Excludes loans underlying AgVantage securities
(2)
Includes loans 90 days or more past due, in foreclosure, restructured after delinquency, in bankruptcy (including loans performing under either their original loan terms or a court-approved bankruptcy plan), and real estate owned.
(3)
Geographic regions - Northwest (AK, ID, MT, ND, NE, OR, SD, WA, WY); Southwest (AZ, CA, CO, HI, NM, NV, UT); Mid-North (IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, WI); Mid-South (KS, OK, TX); Northeast (CT, DE KY, MA, MD, ME, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, TN, VA, VT, WV); and Southeast (AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, SC).

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The following table presents Farmer Mac’s cumulative credit losses and current specific allowances relative to the cumulative original balance for all loans purchased and loans underlying post-1996 Act Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs as of September 30, 2006. The purpose of this table is to present information regarding losses and collateral deficiencies relative to original guarantees and commitments.

Farmer Mac I Post-1996 Act Credit Losses and Specific Allowance for Losses
Relative to all Cumulative Original Loans, Guarantees and LTSPCs
 
   
Cumulative
Original Loans,
Guarantees
and LTSPCs (1)
 
Cumulative
Net Credit
Losses
 
Cumulative
Loss
Rate
 
Current
Specific
Allowance
for Losses
 
Combined
Credit Loss
and Specific
Allowance Rate
 
   
(dollars in thousands)
 
By year of origination:
                     
Before 1996
 
$
2,747,072
     
$
381
       
0.01
%    
$
-
       
0.01
%
1996
   
647,112
   
1,503
   
0.23
%
 
-
   
0.23
%
1997
   
742,874
   
2,513
   
0.34
%
 
-
   
0.34
%
1998
   
1,108,118
   
3,895
   
0.35
%
 
-
   
0.35
%
1999
   
1,119,013
   
1,323
   
0.12
%
 
-
   
0.12
%
2000
   
719,109
   
2,283
   
0.32
%
 
-
   
0.32
%
2001
   
947,964
   
651
   
0.07
%
 
-
   
0.07
%
2002
   
952,961
   
-
   
0.00
%
 
-
   
0.00
%
2003
   
752,307
   
-
   
0.00
%
 
-
   
0.00
%
2004
   
478,739
   
-
   
0.00
%
 
-
   
0.00
%
2005
   
547,588
   
-
   
0.00
%
 
-
   
0.00
%
2006
   
303,575
   
-
   
0.00
%
 
-
   
0.00
%
                                 
Total
 
$
11,066,432
 
$
12,549
   
0.11
%
$
-
   
0.11
%
                                 
By geographic region (2):
                               
Northwest
 
$
2,217,870
 
$
7,244
   
0.33
%
$
-
   
0.33
%
Southwest
   
4,883,875
   
4,732
   
0.10
%
 
-
   
0.10
%
Mid-North
   
1,539,146
   
18
   
0.00
%
 
-
   
0.00
%
Mid-South
   
695,950
   
336
   
0.05
%
 
-
   
0.05
%
Northeast
   
877,044
   
1
   
0.00
%
 
-
   
0.00
%
Southeast
   
852,547
   
218
   
0.03
%
 
-
   
0.03
%
                                 
Total
 
$
11,066,432
 
$
12,549
   
0.11
%
$
-
   
0.11
%
                                 
By commodity/collateral type:
                       
Crops
 
$
4,512,186
 
$
(19
)
 
0.00
%
$
-
   
0.00
%
Permanent plantings
   
2,775,402
   
9,653
   
0.35
%
 
-
   
0.35
%
Livestock
   
2,679,740
   
2,709
   
0.10
%
 
-
   
0.10
%
Part-time farm/rural housing
   
785,186
   
206
   
0.03
%
 
-
   
0.03
%
Ag storage and processing
   
215,273
(3)
 
-
   
0.00
%
 
-
   
0.00
%
Other
   
98,645
   
-
   
0.00
%
 
-
   
0.00
%
                                 
Total
 
$
11,066,432
 
$
12,549
   
0.11
%
$
-
   
0.11
%

(1)
Excludes loans underlying AgVantage securities.
(2)
Geographic regions - Northwest (AK, ID, MT, ND, NE, OR, SD, WA, WY); Southwest (AZ, CA, CO, HI, NM, NV, UT); Mid-North (IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, WI); Mid-South (KS, OK, TX); Northeast (CT, DE, KY, MA, MD, ME, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, TN, VA, VT, WV); and Southeast (AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, SC).
(3)
Several of the loans underlying agricultural storage and processing LTSPCs are for facilities under construction, and as of September 30, 2006, approximately $83.6 million of the loans were not yet disbursed by the lender

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Liquidity and Capital Resources

Farmer Mac has sufficient liquidity and capital resources to support its operations for the next twelve months and has a contingency funding plan to handle unanticipated disruptions in its access to the capital markets.

Debt Issuance. Section 8.6(e) of Farmer Mac’s statutory charter (12 U.S.C. § 2279aa-6(e)) authorizes Farmer Mac to issue debt obligations to purchase eligible mortgage loans and Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities and to maintain reasonable available cash and cash equivalents for business operations, including adequate liquidity. Farmer Mac funds its purchases of program (loans and Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities), mission-related and non-program assets primarily by issuing debt obligations of various maturities in the public capital markets. Farmer Mac’s debt obligations consist of discount notes and medium-term notes, including floating rate notes. Farmer Mac also issues discount notes and medium-term notes to obtain funds to finance its investments, transaction costs, guarantee payments and LTSPC purchase obligations.

The interest and principal on Farmer Mac’s debt are not guaranteed by and do not constitute debts or obligations of FCA or the United States or any agency or instrumentality of the United States other than Farmer Mac. Farmer Mac is an institution of the FCS, but is not liable for any debt or obligation of any other institution of the FCS. Likewise, neither the FCS nor any other individual institution of the FCS is liable for any debt or obligation of Farmer Mac. Income to the purchaser of a Farmer Mac discount note or medium-term note is not exempt under federal law from federal, state or local taxation. The Corporation’s discount notes and medium-term notes are not currently rated by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.

Farmer Mac’s board of directors has authorized the issuance of up to $7.0 billion of discount notes and medium-term notes (of which $4.6 billion was outstanding as of September 30, 2006), subject to periodic review of the adequacy of that level relative to Farmer Mac’s borrowing requirements. Farmer Mac invests the proceeds of such issuances in loans, Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities, mission-related assets and non-program investment assets in accordance with policies established by its board of directors.

Liquidity. The funding and liquidity needs of Farmer Mac’s business programs are driven by the purchase and retention of eligible loans, Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities and mission-related assets; the maturities of Farmer Mac’s discount notes and medium-term notes; and payment of principal and interest on Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities. Farmer Mac’s primary sources of funds to meet these needs are:
 
 
·
principal and interest payments and ongoing guarantee and commitment fees received on loans, Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities, LTSPCs and mission-related assets;
 
·
principal and interest payments received from investment securities; and
 
·
the issuance of new discount notes and medium-term notes.

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As a result of Farmer Mac’s regular issuance of discount notes and medium-term notes and its status as a federally chartered instrumentality of the United States, Farmer Mac has been able to access the capital markets at favorable rates. Farmer Mac has also used floating-to-fixed interest rate swaps, combined with discount note issuances, as a source of fixed-rate funding. While the swap market may provide favorable fixed rates, swap transactions expose Farmer Mac to the risk of future widening of its own issuance spreads versus corresponding LIBOR rates. If the spreads on the Farmer Mac discount notes were to increase relative to LIBOR, Farmer Mac would be exposed to a commensurate reduction on its net interest yield on the notional amount of its floating-to-fixed interest rate swaps and other LIBOR-based floating rate assets.

Farmer Mac maintains cash and liquidity investments in cash equivalents (including commercial paper and other short-term money market instruments) and liquid investment securities that can be drawn upon for liquidity needs. As of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac’s cash and cash equivalents and liquidity investment securities were $804.6 million and $1.9 billion, respectively. In addition, as of September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac held: (1) $500.0 million of mission-related non-program investment securities issued by the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation; and (2) $870.9 million of Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities backed by USDA-guaranteed portions that carry the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. Both types of assets could be drawn upon as an additional source of liquidity. As of September 30, 2006, the aggregate of the Farmer Mac II Guaranteed Securities, mission-related non-program investments, cash and liquidity investments represented 88 percent of Farmer Mac’s total liabilities. Farmer Mac has a policy of maintaining a minimum of 60 days of liquidity and a target of 90 days of liquidity. For third quarter 2006, Farmer Mac maintained an average of greater than 90 days of liquidity.

Capital. On November 11, 2005, Farmer Mac established a program to repurchase up to 10 percent, or 958,632 shares, of the Corporation’s outstanding Class C non-voting common stock. During third quarter 2006, Farmer Mac repurchased 384,900 shares of its Class C Non-Voting Common Stock at an average price of $26.98 per share pursuant to the Corporation’s stock repurchase program. These repurchases reduced the Corporation’s capital by approximately $10.4 million. During the nine months ended September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac repurchased 706,350 shares of its Class C Non-Voting Common Stock at an average price of $26.85, which reduced the Corporation’s capital by approximately $19.0 million. All of the repurchased shares were purchased in open market transactions and were retired to become authorized but unissued shares available for future issuance.
 
Regulatory Matters

On September 30, 2005, the final regulation relating to Farmer Mac’s investments and liquidity became effective. FCA included several of the revisions to the proposed regulation suggested by Farmer Mac in comments to the proposal and Farmer Mac expects to be able to comply with the regulation in accordance with the timeframes established in the regulation. Farmer Mac is required to comply with the liquidity provisions of the regulation by September 30, 2007.

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In the November 17, 2005 issue of the Federal Register, FCA published for public comment a proposed rule that would revise certain FCA regulations governing the risk-based capital stress test applicable to Farmer Mac. The public comment period for that proposed rule closed May 17, 2006. Farmer Mac has provided written comments on the proposed rule to FCA. FCA’s announcement of the proposed rule stated that it “is designed to update Farmer Mac’s risk-based capital stress test to reflect the evolution of the Corporation’s loan portfolio and the practices of other leading financial institutions.” The FCA Board adopted a final rule for the Farmer Mac risk-based capital stress test on November 9, 2006. Farmer Mac has not seen the final rule and does not know what changes FCA has made to the proposed rule in developing the final rule.

Farmer Mac is required to hold capital at the higher of the statutory minimum capital requirement or the amount required by the risk-based capital stress test. Farmer Mac believes that, under current economic conditions and the state of the Corporation’s portfolio, the proposed risk-based capital rule, if adopted in its proposed form, would increase the Corporation’s risk-based capital requirement from its current level ($46.3 million) to a higher level. Farmer Mac does not have adequate information to project with certainty what the risk-based capital requirement under the proposed rule would have been as of September 30, 2006. During the period from June 30, 2005 through September 30, 2006, Farmer Mac increased its net program business volume by $1.9 billion, including a $500.0 million AgVantage transaction in January 2006 and a $1.0 billion AgVantage transaction in July 2006. AgVantage transactions have minimal effect in the determination of the risk-based capital requirement under the existing rule, and Farmer Mac expects no change if the rule became effective as proposed. Looking ahead, if the rule became effective as proposed, the volume and product mix of Farmer Mac’s future growth could be constrained.

Other Matters

Since fourth quarter 2004, Farmer Mac has paid quarterly dividends of $0.10 per share on each of the Corporation’s three classes of common stock - Class A Voting Common Stock, Class B Voting Common Stock, and Class C Non-Voting Common Stock. Each dividend was paid on the last business day of each quarter to holders of record as of the 15th day of the month in which the dividend was paid. On October 4, 2006, Farmer Mac’s board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.10 per share on the Corporation’s three classes of common stock payable on December 29, 2006 to holders of record as of December 15, 2006. Farmer Mac expects to continue to pay comparable quarterly cash dividends for the foreseeable future, subject to the outlook and indicated capital needs of the Corporation and the determination of the board of directors. Farmer Mac’s ability to declare and pay dividends could be restricted if it were to fail to comply with the applicable regulatory capital requirements. See “Business—Government Regulation of Farmer Mac—Regulation—Capital Standards—Enforcement levels” in Farmer Mac’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, as filed with the SEC on November 9, 2006. Farmer Mac’s ability to pay dividends on its common stock is also subject to the payment of dividends on its outstanding preferred stock.

On November 11, 2005, Farmer Mac established a program to repurchase up to 10 percent, or 958,632 shares, of the Corporation’s outstanding Class C Non-Voting Common Stock. The authority for this stock repurchase program expires in November 2007. During third quarter 2006, Farmer Mac repurchased 384,900 shares of its Class C Non-Voting Common Stock under the repurchase program at an average price of $26.98 per share.

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Supplemental Information

The following tables present quarterly and annual information regarding loan purchases, guarantees and LTSPCs and outstanding guarantees and LTSPCs.

Farmer Mac Purchases, Guarantees and LTSPCs
 
   
Farmer Mac I
         
   
Loans and
Guaranteed
Securities
 
LTSPCs
 
Farmer Mac II
 
Total
 
   
(in thousands)
 
For the quarter ended:
                 
September 30, 2006
 
$
1,018,253
     
$
177,885
 (1)   
$
74,217
     
$
1,270,355
 
June 30, 2006
   
26,114
   
570,595
 (2)
 
61,204
   
657,913
 
March 31, 2006
   
530,260
   
73,155
 (3)
 
45,127
   
648,542
 
December 31, 2005
   
31,313
   
239,957
   
59,230
   
330,500
 
September 30, 2005
   
39,821
   
91,783
   
52,181
   
183,785
 
June 30, 2005
   
20,382
   
96,419
   
45,123
   
161,924
 
March 31, 2005
   
18,540
   
33,282
   
43,634
   
95,456
 
December 31, 2004
   
28,211
   
34,091
   
55,122
   
117,424
 
September 30, 2004
   
23,229
   
84,097
   
49,798
   
157,124
 
                           
For the year ended:
                         
December 31, 2005
   
110,056
   
461,441
 (4)
 
200,168
   
771,665
 
December 31, 2004
   
104,404
   
392,559
   
174,074
   
671,037
 

(1)
$36.0 million of the LTSPCs during third quarter were for agricultural storage and processing facilities. Several of the loans underlying those LTSPCs are for facilities under construction, and as of September 30, 2006, approximately $36.0 million of the loans were not yet disbursed by the lender.

(2)
$29.5 million of the LTSPCs during second quarter were for agricultural storage and processing facilities. Several of the loans underlying those LTSPCs are for facilities under construction, and as of September 30, 2006, approximately $11.3 million of the loans were not yet disbursed by the lender.

(3)
$28.5 million of the LTSPCs during first quarter were for agricultural storage and processing facilities. Several of the loans underlying those LTSPCs are for facilities under construction, and as of September 30, 2006, approximately $15.1 million of the loans were not yet disbursed by the lender.

(4)
$104.8 million of the LTSPCs during 2005 were for agricultural storage and processing facilities. Several of the loans underlying those LTSPCs are for facilities under construction, and as of September 30, 2006, approximately $21.2 million of the loans were not yet disbursed by the lender.

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Outstanding Balance of Farmer Mac Loans,
Guarantees and LTSPCs
 
   
Farmer Mac I
         
   
Post-1996 Act
             
   
Loans and
Guaranteed
Securities
 
LTSPCs
 
Pre-1996 Act
 
Farmer Mac II
 
Total
 
   
(in thousands)
 
As of:
                     
September 30, 2006 (1)
 
$
4,267,309
   
$
1,884,223
   
$
5,802
   
$
900,835
   
$
7,058,169
 
June 30, 2006 (2)
   
3,014,614
   
2,149,677
   
9,922
   
863,778
   
6,037,991
 
March 31, 2006
   
2,509,306
   
2,243,259
   
11,337
   
842,363
   
5,606,265
 
December 31, 2005
   
2,094,411
   
2,329,798
   
13,046
   
835,732
   
5,272,987
 
September 30, 2005
   
2,116,680
   
2,183,058
   
14,209
   
810,686
   
5,124,633
 
June 30, 2005
   
2,199,508
   
2,181,896
   
16,333
   
786,671
   
5,184,408
 
March 31, 2005
   
2,243,357
   
2,209,792
   
17,236
   
777,465
   
5,247,850
 
December 31, 2004
   
2,367,460
   
2,295,103
   
18,639
   
768,542
   
5,449,744
 
September 30, 2004
   
2,398,854
   
2,381,006
   
18,909
   
742,474
   
5,541,243
 
 
(1)
The Loans and Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs amounts reflect the conversion of $341.2 million of existing LTSPCs to Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities during third quarter 2006 at the request of a program participant.
 
(2)
The Loans and Guaranteed Securities and LTSPCs amounts reflect the conversion of $550.1 million of existing LTSPCs to Farmer Mac I Guaranteed Securities during second quarter 2006 at the request of a program participant.
 
Outstanding Balance of Loans Held and Loans Underlying
On-Balance Sheet Farmer Mac Guaranteed Securities
 
   
Fixed Rate
(10-yr. wtd avg. term)
 
5-to-10-Year
ARMS &
Resets
 
1-Month-to
3-Year
ARMs
 
Total
Held in
Portfolio
 
   
(in thousands)
 
As of:
                 
September 30, 2006
 
$
863,000
 
$
744,903
 
$
459,604
 
$
2,067,507
 
June 30, 2006
   
885,875
   
749,289
   
441,063
   
2,076,227
 
March 31, 2006
   
871,054
   
729,992
   
464,032
   
2,065,078
 
December 31, 2005
   
866,362
   
752,885
   
479,649
   
2,098,896
 
September 30, 2005
   
840,330
   
785,387
   
477,345
   
2,103,062
 
June 30, 2005
   
838,872
   
803,377
   
488,555
   
2,130,804
 
March 31, 2005
   
828,985
   
822,275
   
492,358
   
2,143,618
 
December 31, 2004
   
763,210
   
923,520
   
533,686
   
2,220,416
 
September 30, 2004
   
753,205
   
929,641
   
520,246
   
2,203,092
 

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Item 3.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Farmer Mac is exposed to market risk attributable to changes in interest rates. Farmer Mac manages this market risk by entering into various financial transactions, including financial derivatives, and by monitoring its exposure to changes in interest rates. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk Management—Interest Rate Risk” for more information about Farmer Mac’s exposure to interest rate risk and strategies to manage such risk. For information regarding Farmer Mac’s use of and accounting policies for financial derivatives, see Note 1(c) and Note 6 to the interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements contained in this report. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources” for further information regarding Farmer Mac’s debt issuance and liquidity risks.

Item 4.
Controls and Procedures

(a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures. Farmer Mac maintains disclosure controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the Corporation’s periodic filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), including this report, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported on a timely basis. These disclosure controls and procedures include controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the Corporation’s management on a timely basis to allow decisions regarding required disclosure. Management, including Farmer Mac’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of the Corporation’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined under Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act) as of September 30, 2006. Based on management’s reassessment, the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer have concluded that Farmer Mac’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of September 30, 2006 because of the material weakness in internal control over financial reporting related to the accounting for financial derivatives as defined by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities described in Management’s Report on Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (as revised) found in Item 8 of Farmer Mac’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005 filed on November 9, 2006.

(b) Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. There was no change in Farmer Mac’s internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2006 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, Farmer Mac’s internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II - OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1.
Legal Proceedings

Farmer Mac is not a party to any material pending legal proceedings.


Item 1A.
Risk Factors

In addition to the risk factors described in the "Risk Factors” section in Part I, Item 1A of Farmer Mac’s Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005, the following additional risk factor could materially adversely affect Farmer Mac’s business, financial condition or results of operations:

Changes in Interest Rates May Cause Volatility
in Financial Results Irrespective of Business Operations 

Farmer Mac enters into financial derivatives transactions to hedge interest rate risks inherent in its business, and does not use financial derivatives transactions for trading or speculative purposes. The Corporation applies fair value accounting to its financial derivatives transactions pursuant to SFAS 133; it does not apply hedge accounting to those derivatives. Changes in the fair value of financial derivatives caused by changes in interest rates are recognized immediately in earnings, notwithstanding that they offset substantially changes in the value of the hedged items. Therefore, factors unrelated to the performance of the Corporation’s business may cause the Corporation’s GAAP earnings to be more volatile than - and even counter-directional to - the underlying economics of its business operations.


Item 2.
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

 
 
(a)
Farmer Mac is a federally chartered instrumentality of the United States and its Common Stock is exempt from registration pursuant to Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933.
 
On July 3, 2006, pursuant to Farmer Mac’s policy that permits directors of Farmer Mac to elect to receive shares of Class C Non-Voting Common Stock in lieu of their annual cash retainers, Farmer Mac issued an aggregate of 487 shares of its Class C Non-Voting Common Stock, at an issue price of $27.70 per share, to the seven directors who elected to receive such stock in lieu of their cash retainers.
 
On August 2, 2006, Farmer Mac granted options under its 1997 Stock Option Plan to purchase 15,000 shares of Class C Non-Voting Common Stock to an employee as incentive compensation. Those options have an exercise price of $26.59 per share.

 
(b)
Not applicable.

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(c)
As shown in the table below, Farmer Mac repurchased 384,900 shares of its Class C Non-Voting Common Stock during third quarter 2006 at an average price of $26.98 per share. All of the repurchased shares were purchased in open market transactions and were retired to become authorized but unissued shares available for future issuance.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
 
Period
 
Total Number
of Class C
Shares
Purchased
 
Average
Price Paid
per Class
C Share
 
Total Number of
Class C Shares
Purchased as Part
of Publicly
Announced
Program*
 
Maximum Number
of Class C Shares
that May Yet Be
Purchased Under
the Program
 
                   
July 1, 2006 - July 31, 2006
   
196,900
 
$
26.63
   
196,900
   
396,332
 
August 1, 2006 - August 31, 2006
   
125,400
 
$
27.36
   
125,400
   
270,932
 
September 1, 2006 - September 30, 2006
   
62,600
 
$
27.31
   
62,600
   
208,332
 
Total
   
384,900
 
$
26.98
   
384,900
       

*
On November 17, 2005, Farmer Mac publicly announced that its board of directors had authorized a program to repurchase up to 10 percent of the Corporation’s outstanding Class C Non-Voting Common Stock (958,632 shares). The authority for this stock repurchase program expires in November 2007.


Item 3.
Defaults Upon Senior Securities

 
(a)
Not applicable.

 
(b)
Not applicable.
 
Item 4.
Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

Not applicable.

Item 5.
Other Information

 
(a)
None.

 
(b)
Not applicable.

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Item 6.
Exhibits

*
3.1
-
Title VIII of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as most recently amended by the Farm Credit System Reform Act of 1996, P.L. 104-105 (Form 10-K filed March 29, 1996).
       
*
3.2
-
Amended and restated By-Laws of the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2004).
       
*
4.1
-
Specimen Certificate for Farmer Mac Class A Voting Common Stock (Form 10-Q filed May 15, 2003).
       
*
4.2
-
Specimen Certificate for Farmer Mac Class B Voting Common Stock (Form 10-Q filed May 15, 2003).
       
*
4.3
-
Specimen Certificate for Farmer Mac Class C Non-Voting Common Stock (Form 10-Q filed May 15, 2003).
       
*
4.4
-
Certificate of Designation of Terms and Conditions of Farmer Mac 6.40% Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series A (Form 10-Q filed May 15, 2003).
       
*
4.5.1
-
Master Terms Agreement for Farmer Mac’s Universal Debt Facility dated as of July 28, 2005 (Previously filed as Exhibit 4.3 to Form 8-A filed August 4, 2005).
       
*
4.5.2
-
Supplemental Agreement for 4.25% Fixed Rate Global Notes Due July 29, 2008 (Previously filed as Exhibit 4.4 to Form 8-A filed August 4, 2005).
       
†*
10.1
-
Stock Option Plan (Previously filed as Exhibit 19.1 to Form 10-Q filed August 14, 1992).
       
†*
10.1.1
-
Amendment No. 1 to Stock Option Plan (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.2 to Form 10-Q filed August 16, 1993).
       
†*
10.1.2
-
1996 Stock Option Plan (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 1996).
       
†*
10.1.3
-
Amended and Restated 1997 Incentive Plan (Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2003).
       
†*
10.1.4
-
Form of stock option award agreement under 1997 Incentive Plan (Form 10-K filed March 16, 2005).
 
 

*
Incorporated by reference to the indicated prior filing.
**
Filed with this report.
Management contract or compensatory plan.
#
Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment.
 
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†*
10.2
-
Employment Agreement dated May 5, 1989 between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.4 to Form 10-K filed February 14, 1990).
       
†*
10.2.1
-
Amendment No. 1 dated as of January 10, 1991 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.4 to Form 10-K filed April 1, 1991).
       
†*
10.2.2
-
Amendment to Employment Contract dated as of June 1, 1993 between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.5 to Form 10-Q filed November 15, 1993).
       
†*
10.2.3
-
Amendment No. 3 dated as of June 1, 1994 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.6 to Form 10-Q filed August 15, 1994).
       
†*
10.2.4
-
Amendment No. 4 dated as of February 8, 1996 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Form 10-K filed March 29, 1996).
       
†*
10.2.5
-
Amendment No. 5 dated as of June 13, 1996 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 1996).
       
†*
10.2.6
-
Amendment No. 6 dated as of August 7, 1997 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 14, 1997).
       
†*
10.2.7
-
Amendment No. 7 dated as of June 4, 1998 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 1998).
       
†*
10.2.8
-
Amendment No. 8 dated as of June 3, 1999 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 12, 1999).
       
†*
10.2.9
-
Amendment No. 9 dated as of June 1, 2000 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2000).
       
†*
10.2.10
-
Amendment No. 10 dated as of June 7, 2001 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2001).
 
 

#
Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment.
*
Incorporated by reference to the indicated prior filing.
**
Filed with this report.
Management contract or compensatory plan.
#
Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment.

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†*
10.2.11
-
Amendment No. 11 dated as of June 6, 2002 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2002).
       
†*
10.2.12
-
Amendment No. 12 dated as of June 5, 2003 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2003).
       
†*
10.2.13
-
Amendment No. 13 dated as of August 3, 2004 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 9, 2004).
       
†*
10.2.14
-
Amendment No. 14 dated as of June 16, 2005 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2005).
       
†*
10.2.15
-
Amendment No. 15 dated as of June 1, 2006 to Employment Contract between Henry D. Edelman and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2006).
       
†*
10.3
-
Employment Agreement dated May 11, 1989 between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.5 to Form 10-K filed February 14, 1990).
       
†*
10.3.1
-
Amendment dated December 14, 1989 to Employment Agreement between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.5 to Form 10-K filed February 14, 1990).
       
†*
10.3.2
-
Amendment No. 2 dated February 14, 1991 to Employment Agreement between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.7 to Form 10-K filed April 1, 1991).
       
†*
10.3.3
-
Amendment to Employment Contract dated as of June 1, 1993 between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.9 to Form 10-Q filed November 15, 1993).
       
†*
10.3.4
-
Amendment No. 4 dated June 1, 1993 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.10 to Form 10-K filed March 31, 1994).
 
 

*
Incorporated by reference to the indicated prior filing.
**
Filed with this report.
Management contract or compensatory plan.
#
Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment.

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†*
10.3.5
-
Amendment No. 5 dated as of June 1, 1994 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.12 to Form 10-Q filed August 15, 1994).
       
†*
10.3.6
-
Amendment No. 6 dated as of June 1, 1995 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 1995).
       
†*
10.3.7
-
Amendment No. 7 dated as of February 8, 1996 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Form 10-K filed March 29, 1996).
       
†*
10.3.8
-
Amendment No. 8 dated as of June 13, 1996 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 1996).
       
†*
10.3.9
-
Amendment No. 9 dated as of August 7, 1997 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 14, 1997).
       
†*
10.3.10
-
Amendment No. 10 dated as of June 4, 1998 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 1998).
       
†*
10.3.11
-
Amendment No. 11 dated as of June 3, 1999 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 12, 1999).
       
†*
10.3.12
-
Amendment No. 12 dated as of June 1, 2000 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2000).
       
†*
10.3.13
-
Amendment No. 13 dated as of June 7, 2001 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2001).
       
†*
10.3.14
-
Amendment No. 14 dated as of June 6, 2002 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2002).
       
†*
10.3.15
-
Amendment No. 15 dated as of June 5, 2003 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2003).
 
 

*
Incorporated by reference to the indicated prior filing.
**
Filed with this report.
Management contract or compensatory plan.
#
Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment.

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†*
10.3.16
-
Amendment No. 16 dated as of August 3, 2004 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 9, 2004).
       
†*
10.3.17
-
Amendment No. 17 dated as of June 16, 2005 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2005).
       
†*
10.3.18
-
Amendment No. 18 dated as of June 1, 2006 to Employment Contract between Nancy E. Corsiglia and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2006).
       
†*
10.4
-
Employment Contract dated as of September 1, 1997 between Tom D. Stenson and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.8 to Form 10-Q filed November 14, 1997).
       
†*
10.4.1
-
Amendment No. 1 dated as of June 4, 1998 to Employment Contract between Tom D. Stenson and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.8.1 to Form 10-Q filed August 14, 1998).
       
†*
10.4.2
-
Amendment No. 2 dated as of June 3, 1999 to Employment Contract between Tom D. Stenson and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 12, 1999).
       
†*
10.4.3
-
Amendment No. 3 dated as of June 1, 2000 to Employment Contract between Tom D. Stenson and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2000).
       
†*
10.4.4
-
Amendment No. 4 dated as of June 7, 2001 to Employment Contract between Tom D. Stenson and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2001).
       
†*
10.4.5
-
Amendment No. 5 dated as of June 6, 2002 to Employment Contract between Tom D. Stenson and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2002).
       
†*
10.4.6
-
Amendment No. 6 dated as of June 5, 2003 to Employment Contract between Tom D. Stenson and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2003).
 
 

*
Incorporated by reference to the indicated prior filing.
**
Filed with this report.
Management contract or compensatory plan.
#
Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment.

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†*
10.4.7
-
Amendment No. 7 dated as of August 3, 2004 to Employment Contract between Tom D. Stenson and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 9, 2004).
       
†*
10.4.8
-
Amendment No. 8 dated as of June 16, 2005 to Employment Contract between Tom D. Stenson and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2005).
       
†*
10.4.9
-
Amendment No. 9 dated as of June 1, 2006 to Employment Contract between Tom D. Stenson and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2006).
       
†*
10.5
-
Employment Contract dated February 1, 2000 between Jerome G. Oslick and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.6 to Form 10-Q filed May 11, 2000).
       
†*
10.5.1
-
Amendment No. 1 dated as of June 1, 2000 to Employment Contract between Jerome G. Oslick and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.6.1 to Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2000).
       
†*
10.5.2
-
Amendment No. 2 dated as of June 7, 2001 to Employment Contract between Jerome G. Oslick and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.6.2 to Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2001).
       
†*
10.5.3
-
Amendment No. 3 dated as of June 6, 2002 to Employment Contract between Jerome G. Oslick and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2002).
       
†*
10.5.4
-
Amendment No. 4 dated as of June 5, 2003 to Employment Contract between Jerome G. Oslick and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2003).
       
†*
10.5.5
-
Amendment No. 5 dated as of June 16, 2005 to Employment Contract between Jerome G. Oslick and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2005).
       
†*
10.5.6
-
Amendment No. 6 dated as of June 1, 2006 to Employment Contract between Jerome G. Oslick and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2006).
       
†*
10.6
-
Employment Contract dated June 5, 2003 between Timothy L. Buzby and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2003).
 
 

*
Incorporated by reference to the indicated prior filing.
**
Filed with this report.
Management contract or compensatory plan.
#
Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment.

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†*
10.6.1
-
Amendment No. 1 dated as of August 3, 2004 to Employment Contract between Timothy L. Buzby and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 9, 2004).
       
†*
10.6.2
-
Amendment No. 2 dated as of June 16, 2005 to Employment Contract between Timothy L. Buzby and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2005).
       
†*
10.6.3
-
Amendment No. 3 dated as of June 1, 2006 to Employment Contract between Timothy L. Buzby and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2006).
       
*
10.7
-
Farmer Mac I Seller/Servicer Agreement dated as of August 7, 1996 between Zions First National Bank and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2002).
       
*
10.8
-
Medium-Term Notes U.S. Selling Agency Agreement dated as of October 1, 1998 between Zions First National Bank and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2002).
       
*
10.9
-
Discount Note Dealer Agreement dated as of September 18, 1996 between Zions First National Bank and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2002).
       
*#
10.10
-
ISDA Master Agreement and Credit Support Annex dated as of June 26, 1997 between Zions First National Bank and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2002).
       
*#
10.11
-
Master Central Servicing Agreement dated as of December 17, 1996 between Zions First National Bank and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2002).
       
*#
10.11.1
-
Amendment No. 1 dated as of February 26, 1997 to Master Central Servicing Agreement dated as of December 17, 1996 between Zions First National Bank and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2002).
       
*#
10.11.2
-
Amended and Restated Master Central Servicing Agreement dated as of May 1, 2004 between Zions First National Bank and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2004).
       
*#
10.12
-
Loan Closing File Review Agreement dated as of August 2, 2005 between Zions First National Bank and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 9, 2005).
 
 

*
Incorporated by reference to the indicated prior filing.
**
Filed with this report.
Management contract or compensatory plan.
#
Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment.
 
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*#
10.13
-
Long Term Standby Commitment to Purchase dated as of August 1, 1998 between AgFirst Farm Credit Bank and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2002).
       
*#
10.13.1
-
Amendment No. 1 dated as of January 1, 2000 to Long Term Standby Commitment to Purchase dated as of August 1, 1998 between AgFirst Farm Credit Bank and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2002).
       
*
10.13.2
-
Amendment No. 2 dated as of September 1, 2002 to Long Term Standby Commitment to Purchase dated as of August 1, 1998, as amended by Amendment No. 1 dated as of January 1, 2000, between AgFirst Farm Credit Bank and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2002).
       
*
10.14
-
Lease Agreement, dated June 28, 2001 between EOP - Two Lafayette, L.L.C. and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.10 to Form 10-K filed March 27, 2002).
       
†*
10.15
-
Lease Agreement dated May 26, 2005 between Zions First National Bank and the Registrant (Previously filed as Exhibit 10.19 to Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2005).
       
*#
10.16
-
Long Term Standby Commitment to Purchase dated as of June 1, 2003 between Farm Credit Bank of Texas and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 9, 2004).
       
*#
10.17
-
Central Servicer Delinquent Loan Servicing Transfer Agreement dated as of July 1, 2004 between AgFirst Farm Credit Bank and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed November 9, 2004).
       
†*
10.18
-
Employment Contract dated June 20, 2005 between Mary K. Waters and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2005).
       
†*
10.18.1
-
Amendment No. 1 dated as of dated June 1, 2006 to Employment Contract between Mary K. Waters and the Registrant (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2006).
       
†*
10.19
-
Description of compensation agreement between the Registrant and its directors (Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2006).
       
 
21
-
Farmer Mac Mortgage Securities Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
 

*
Incorporated by reference to the indicated prior filing.
**
Filed with this report.
Management contract or compensatory plan.
#
Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment.

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**
-
Certification of Chief Executive Officer relating to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2006, pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
       
**
-
Certification of Chief Financial Officer relating to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2006, pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
       
**
-
Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer relating to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2006, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 
 

*
Incorporated by reference to the indicated prior filing.
**
Filed with this report.
Management contract or compensatory plan.
#
Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment.
 
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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION


November 9, 2006

 
By:
/s/ Henry D. Edelman
   
Henry D. Edelman
President and Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)


   
/s/ Nancy E. Corsiglia
   
Nancy E. Corsiglia
Vice President - Finance
(Principal Financial Officer)
 
 
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