Gary Troester is the FSA farm loan manager for 10 counties in Southern California. He has offices in Bakersfield and Santa Maria, with customers producing crops of coffee, cattle, strawberries, avocadoes, vegetables, mushrooms, microgreens and now the popular urban gardening and farmers’ markets entrepreneurs. The populated area of nearly 9 million people stretches to the borders of Mexico and Nevada.
Gary emphasizes communication skills with ag borrowers and strong background in agricultural production, both skills that he honed at UNSTA (now the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture).
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