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Black Elected Chairman; Rucks Vice-Chairman of AgSouth Farm Credit Board of Directors

STATESBORO, GA, Feb. 2, 2012 - AgSouth Farm Credit CEO Bill Spigener recently announced that Arthur Q. Black, of York County, S.C., has been elected chairman and Charles C. Rucks, of Spalding County, Ga., has been elected vice-chairman, of AgSouth Farm Credit’s board of directors. 

Black has been a director of the association since 1995, and Rucks has been a director since 1988. Both were appointed to sit on the association’s Executive, Compensation, Governance, Audit and Policy committees. They assumed their new roles at the cooperative’s board of directors’ meeting held earlier this month. 

Black is a peach, hay and produce farmer who operates a retail roadside market and bakery and an agritourism business. He is president of the York County Farm Bureau and serves on the board of the Fruit Advisory Committee of the South Carolina Farm Bureau. Black also serves as president of the board of Farmers Mutual Insurance. 

Rucks is a beef and hay farmer and a recently retired dairy farmer. He serves on the boards of the Spalding County Farm Bureau, the Georgia Beef Board and the Upper Flint Water Council. He also serves as a director on the Southern States board. 

About AgSouth
AgSouth Farm Credit provides loans for land, equipment and production agriculture; crop insurance; leasing; and home mortgages. As of December 31, 2011, AgSouth had more than 7,450 members, $1.60 billion in assets and $253 million in capital and allocated accounts. The association is headquartered in Statesboro, Ga., with administrative offices in Spartanburg, S.C., and Orangeburg, S.C. The cooperative’s 26 branches serve 59 Georgia and 34 South Carolina counties. For more information, visit www.agsouthfc.com.

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AgSouth Farm Credit
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