The Plant City Courier & Tribune
Farm Credit CEO, President To Serve 'A Higher Authority'
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Published: January 22, 2008
PLANT CITY - After serving as president and chief executive officer of Farm Credit of Central Florida for 11 years, Richard W. Joyner has announced he will retire on March 31 and focus on his family and church.
Richard W. Joyner
"I felt a calling from a higher authority to devote more time to the needs of my church," said Joyner, an ordained minister of Baptist Purity Church.
Joyner, a Plant City resident, helped shepherd the farmer-owned cooperative through many changes and expansions, said Ron O'Connor, vice president of marketing for Farm Credit of Central Florida. During Joyner's tenure, the association's gross loan volume has almost doubled, from $341 million to $647 million, O'Connor said. Farm Credit is a major lender to farmers in the region.
Replacing Joyner as president will be Reginald T. Holt, who is senior vice president and director of Farm Credit's Agribusiness Lending Group, Bellotto said.
Joyner was born in Tampa and has been with the Farm Credit system for 35 years. He graduated from Plant City High School and has degrees from Brevard (N.C.) College and the University of Florida. Before joining Farm Credit, he taught agriculture at Pinecrest Elementary School and Plant City High School.
He began his Farm Credit career in 1973 when he became assistant vice president of the Federal Land Bank Association of Tampa. Joyner was president and CEO of Farm Credit of Southwest Florida from 1990-97, O'Connor said.
Joyner and his wife, Yolanda, have been married for 39 years. Their son, Wesley, and his wife, Jenny, have two children, Aly and Clay. Joyner said another reason he wants to retire is to spend more time with his grandchildren.
Farm Credit of Central Florida serves about 1,400 members-borrowers in 13 counties and makes loans for long, short and intermediate agricultural purposes, residential loans for financing, refinancing or refurbishing rural residences. Farm Credit also provides crop and credit life insurance.
Reporter Ray Reyes can be reached at (813) 865-4433 or rreyes@tampatrib.com.
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