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Maine Credit Union to Support Farmers Amid Economic Uncertainty

Maine Harvest Federal Credit Union (MHFCU) today announced a new program that will pay closing costs for purchasing or refinancing farmland in Maine. The Conservation Grant Program will enable potential borrowers to take advantage of historically low interest rates by...

Newsletter March 2020

Mainers Funding Mainers

Mainers Funding Mainers As a 12-year-old, Sam May ran a manure spreader at Cripps Dairy Farm on scenic rolling hillsides along the Goose River in Rockport. At that time in the 1960s, Rockport still had several dairy farms, locally made ice cream, a successful egg...

NCUA Charters Maine Harvest Federal Credit Union

NCAU Charters Maine Harvest Federal Credit Union Credit Union Will Offer Affordable Financial Services to Farm and Food Production Community ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Aug. 23, 2019) – The state of Maine has a new credit union, Maine Harvest Federal Credit Union, headquartered...

Maine Harvest Credit Union Poised to Open

(From MaineBiz ) – A six-year effort to create Maine’s first credit union in three decades, and the first ever focused on farmers and food producers, is poised to become a reality. Maine Harvest Credit Union, which will offer loans to the agriculture and food producer...

Newly Chartered Credit Union to Open in the Fall

New credit union charter announced. (Source: Shutterstock) Perhaps it is by coincidence that the industry’s newest cooperative, Maine Harvest Federal Credit Union , will officially open for business to serve farmers this fall during the traditional agricultural...

NCUA grants charter to Maine Harvest Federal Credit Union

The National Credit Union Administration has granted a federal charter and share insurance to Maine Harvest Federal Credit Union in Unity. The charter was granted on Aug. 14, and the institution should open this fall, the regulator said in a press release on Friday....

Maine credit union for food producers receives federal charter

A new Maine credit union catering to farmers and food producers has been granted regulatory approval to begin operations. Maine Harvest Federal Credit Union, based in Unity, received its charter from the National Credit Union Administration on Aug. 14, the credit...