Profiles of Capital Providers

Farm Credit Canada

Department Divisions

Direct Lending Manitoba

1. Steinbach District (Eastern half of Manitoba).  District Director – Roland Kirouac. 
   Contact 204-346-6362, or Roland.Kirouac@fcc-fac.ca.
   
2. Brandon District (Western half of Manitoba).  District Director – Tom Harland. 
   Contact 204-726-7674, or Tom.Harland@fcc-fac.ca.

Web site: www.fcc-fac.ca

Alliances

Todd Kilnk – Senior Director, Alliances West.  Contact 306-780-7407 or Todd.Klink@fcc-fac.ca.

Venture Capital

Avrio Ventures Limited Partnership
Jim Taylor
Tel: 403-215-5490
Email: info@avrioventures.com
Web site: www.avrioventures.com

Department Mandate

Vision
Visionary leaders and trusted partners in finance and management services tailored to agriculture - leveraging our people's specialized knowledge and passion to create an extraordinary customer experience.

Mission
The purpose of the corporation is to enhance rural Canada by providing specialized and personalized business and financial services and products to farming operations, including family farms, and to those businesses in rural Canada, including small and medium—sized businesses, that are businesses related to farming. The primary focus of the activities of the corporation shall be on farming operations, including family farms.

Public Policy
We fulfill our public policy role of enhancing rural Canada by offering loans and services to the agricultural community. These services include management software, information and learning to help customers make sound business decisions. Our commitment extends to customers throughout rural Canada with services provided in both official languages. Founded on providing lending services to primary producers, FCC's depth of support now extends to financing businesses that provide the inputs to and outputs from primary production.
FCC is built on solid business principles, which includes assuming an appropriate level of risk.
Our commitment to agriculture is unwavering. We are dedicated to supporting the industry by working with our customers to see them through challenges and to help them take advantage of opportunities.

Program areas by Division

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Products and Services

Producer Financing
Agribusiness Financing
FCC Alliances Financing
Partnerships
Venture Capital
Loan Life and Accident Insurance
Software
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www.fcc-fac.ca/en/products/products_e.asp

Clientele

• agri-food and agricultural equipment manufacturers
• equipment dealers and retailers
• food processors
• logistics businesses (storage, packaging, agricultural and food distribution)
• large integrated farm operators
• grain handlers, transporters and processors
• input suppliers (seed, fertilizer, pesticides)
• ag-biotech operators
• food and livestock distributors
• importers
• exporters
• wineries

Contact

Bonnie Bain, P.Ag., C.G.A.
Senior Relationship Manager  / Directrice principale des relations d'affaires 
Farm Credit Canada / Financement agricole Canada 
99 Scurfield Boulevard, P.O. Box 139
99, boulevard Scurfield, C.P. 139
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3Y 1Y1 
Tel: 204-771-4538 
Fax: 204-346-6374
E-Mail: bonnie.bain@fcc-fac.ca

As a Senior Relationship Manager, I provide lending services for value-added agribusinesses and large primary producers.  Further, I maintain existing accounts by expanding the relationship with the client, tracking client performance, performing regular account reviews including compliance monitoring and providing other customer services.

Other Contacts

Anthony Wiebe, Senior Relationship Manager

Farm Credit Canada (FCC)
is a federal crown corporation, proudly serving Canadian agriculture as the leading provider of financing to the industry since 1959.  We focus on the primary producer as well as suppliers and processors along the agricultural value chain.  We provide our customers with flexible competitively priced financing, equity, insurance, management software, information and learning.

These services help our customers make sound business decisions and experience greater success.  We take time to get to know our customers, their individual needs, goals and vision for the future.  We work with them through challenges and help them pursue opportunities. FCC helps producers, suppliers and processors along the agriculture value chain be more successful. In fact, we’re the largest financing provider to Canadian agriculture. We also offer equity, insurance, management software, information and learning. www.fcc-fac.ca/en/index.asp