RIDGELAND, Miss. – Southern AgCredit, a rural lending cooperative, recently hired Victoria Scarbrough as an accountant in its administrative office in Ridgeland, Miss.

Scarbrough holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting, a BBA degree in finance and an MBA degree, all from Mississippi State University. She worked for a real estate company while she was pursuing her master’s degree. A native of Gluckstadt, Miss., Scarbrough grew up riding horses and living on a crop farm.

Southern AgCredit is a full-service cooperative lender that specializes in financing rural land and agricultural operations in Mississippi and Louisiana. It is a part of the Farm Credit System, the nation’s single largest source of loans for agriculture, agribusiness, rural real estate and country homes. For more information, visit www.southernagcredit.com.