Events

Before listening to the live webcast or the recording of Farmer Mac’s Investor Conference Call, you are required to read the following advice concerning certain statements made during that call.

Forward-Looking Statements

In this report, the words “Farmer Mac,” “we,” “our,” and “us” refer to the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation and its subsidiaries unless otherwise stated or unless the context otherwise requires.

Some statements made in this report, such as in the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (‘MD&A’)” section, are “forward-looking statements” as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 about management’s current expectations for 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. These statements typically include terms such as “anticipates,” “believes,” “continues,” “estimates,” “expects,” “forecasts,” “likely,” “intends,” “often,” “outlook,” “plans,” “potential,” “project,” “target,” and similar terms, and future or conditional tense verbs like “could,” “may,” “might,” “should,” “will,” and “would.” This report includes forward-looking statements addressing our:

• prospects for earnings;
• prospects for growth in business volume;
• trends in net interest income and net effective spread;
• trends in portfolio credit quality, delinquencies, substandard assets, credit losses, charge offs, and provisions for expected credit losses;
• assessment of economic and market trends;
• trends in expenses;
• trends in investment securities;
• prospects for asset impairments and allowance for losses;
• changes in capital position;
• future dividend payments; and
• other business and financial

Management’s expectations for Farmer Mac’s future necessarily involve assumptions, estimates, and the evaluation of risks and uncertainties. Various factors or events, both known and unknown, could cause our 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 I, Item 1A of this report as well as uncertainties about:

• the availability to Farmer Mac of debt and equity financing and, if available, the reasonableness of rates and terms;
• legislative, regulatory, or current or future political developments that could affect Farmer Mac, its sources of business, or agricultural or infrastructure industries;
• fluctuations in the fair value of assets held by Farmer Mac and its subsidiaries;
• the level of lender interest in Farmer Mac’s products and the secondary market provided by Farmer Mac;
• the general rate of growth in agricultural mortgage and infrastructure indebtedness;
• the effect of economic conditions stemming from disruptive global events or otherwise on agricultural mortgage or infrastructure lending, borrower repayment capacity, or collateral values, including inflation, fluctuations in interest rates, changes in U.S. trade policies (including tariffs and trade restrictions), fluctuations in export demand for S. agricultural products and foreign currency exchange rates, supply chain disruptions, increases in input costs, labor availability, and volatility in commodity prices;
• the degree to which Farmer Mac is exposed to interest rate risk resulting from fluctuations in Farmer Mac’s borrowing costs relative to market indices;
• developments in the financial markets, including possible investor, analyst, and rating agency reactions to events involving government-sponsored enterprises, including Farmer Mac;
• the effects of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to achieve monetary policy normalization to respond to inflation and employment levels; and
• other factors that could hinder agricultural mortgage lending or borrower repayment capacity, including the effects of severe weather, flooding and drought, or fluctuations in agricultural real estate values.

Considering these potential risks and uncertainties, no undue reliance should be placed on any forward-looking statements expressed in this report. We undertake no obligation to release publicly the results of revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect new information or any future events or circumstances, except as otherwise required by applicable law. The information in this report is not necessarily indicative of future results.

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