CoBank, a cooperative bank serving agribusinesses, rural infrastructure providers and Farm Credit associations throughout the United States, announced that Jason Lueders has been appointed as the bank’s new Farm Credit Leasing President.

In this new role, Lueders will provide overall leadership for FCL’s national footprint providing leasing solutions to agribusiness and rural infrastructure cooperatives, and farmers and ranchers of the Farm Credit System. Lueders will succeed Mike Romanowski in this position as Romanowski transitions to his role as business unit leader for CoBank’s digital business solutions.

“Jason has been a significant contributor to CoBank for the past 15 years and we are excited to further leverage his leadership expertise for CoBank and the Farm Credit System within the Leasing platform,” said Brenda Frank, Executive Vice President of CoBank’s VP Farm Credit Banking division.

Since 2012, Lueders has led CoBank’s Minneapolis and Fargo Banking Centers, which provide loans, leases, and other financial services to farmer-owned cooperatives and other middle market agribusinesses across Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas. He has also led CoBank’s Coop Start initiative that targets small and emerging cooperatives across the country, and serves on the boards of the Agricultural Retailers Association and the Ralph K. Morris Foundation. Prior to joining CoBank in 2007, he was a relationship manager in US Bank’s Food and Agribusiness Group where he worked with agribusinesses across the US, and he started his career as a credit analyst with Community First Bankshares (aka Bank of the West) in Fargo, ND.

CoBank Farm Credit Leasing delivers the benefits of leasing to agricultural and rural businesses throughout the United States. As a proud member of the Farm Credit System and wholly owned subsidiary of CoBank, Farm Credit Leasing has provided lease financing to producers, ranchers, agribusinesses, agricultural cooperatives, rural utility cooperatives, and rural water providers for decades.