Our History
Serving Farm Credit for Over 25 Years
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Jan
1995
Open For Business
After an evaluation of how to adjust service delivery for Farm Credit in the 21st century, FPI is formed leveraging legislation set by Congress allowing credit entities to form service companies.
FPI opens with 32 employees serving our first agricultural credit association Partners known today as Farm Credit East and Yankee Farm Credit.
Apr
1996
Inaugural Kids Day
Part of the national Take your Child to Work Day, 18 school-aged children are welcomed to FPI to shadow their hosts for the day. They experienced life at FPI, learning about the Farm Credit mission and FPI's role in supporting American agriculture.
Nov
1996
Winner Of The 1995-1996 Best In Micro-Banking Award
BASIS, FPI’s first generation front-end credit delivery system, was granted the Micro-Banking award for BASIS’s unique design concepts and integration.
The home-grown software made the loan officer the center of the software experience, increasing efficiencies allowing loan officers to spend more time with farmers and less time on data entry.
Jan
1998
Westward Bound
Agricultural credit associations that would later merge to form Farm Credit West in 2000 join the FPI family.
Jun
2004
EmPOWER Replaces BASIS As Front-End System
As a configurable system, EmPOWER introduces the ability to expand functionality and integration to meet each agricultural credit associations' credit delivery needs.
Jan
2007
It's Official
Following a period of strategic partnership and innovative thinking between Northwest Farm Credit Services and FPI, Northwest FCS formally join the FPI family as customer-owners.
Jul
2008
FPI Is Growing!
AgCountry Farm Credit Services of the AgriBank district formally joins the FPI family, adding diversity to the partnerships of FPI's customer-owners.
Jan
2015
20-Years Serving Farm Credit
With 200 employees, two office locations, five agricultural credit association Partners and staff co-located at many branch offices, FPI's offerings have expanded. Agricultural credit association Partners are utilizing new intranets, Customer MySites, CreditPro and Collateral Web implementations are underway.
Mar
2018
Welcome To The Family
Farm Credit Illinois joins the FPI family in August followed shortly after by Fresno Madera Farm Credit who joined in October of the same year.
Oct
2019
FPI Live! Operations Summit
Collaboration is key to successfully supporting FPI's Partners. At the first Operations Summit in Agawam, MA, over 50 agricultural credit association attendees and FPI staff collaborate on ways to enhance FPI's technology solutions to support the Farm Credit mission.
Jan
2020
25 Years Strong
With over 250 employees, six agricultural credit association Partners and AgWorx by FPI implementations underway, the agricultural lending experience is being digitized to support FPI's Partners and their customer-members today and into the future.