Colonial Farm Credit
Melissa LaRaja is a skilled Accounts Payable Specialist with extensive experience in financial operations, including invoice processing, compliance review, and customer service. Currently employed at Colonial Farm Credit since July 2022, previous positions include similar roles at Lee Enterprises and various coordinator positions at Consumer Direct Care Network and Divurgent. Melissa has demonstrated proficiency in prioritizing tasks, developing efficient processes, and maintaining high-quality service standards. With a Bachelor's degree in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Business Communications certificate from Duke University, Melissa combines strong analytical skills with a solid educational background to excel in fast-paced environments.
Colonial Farm Credit
Colonial Farm Credit provides financing to farmers, landowners, and rural homeowners in eastern Virginia and southern Maryland. They are the Experts in Rural Finance with local offices and people who know their business, their communities, and their customers. Their combination of competitive rates, personal service, and extensive local knowledge is unmatched in the financial world. Financing is available for farm purchases, farm operating expenses, buildings, livestock, and equipement, as well as land and home purchases, and home construction and imrpovement. The company also maintains a commercial loan group that specializes in financing larger agribusinesses such as logging and sawmill operations, greenhouses and nurseries, and poultry and cattle operations. Colonial Farm Credit is part of a nationwide Farm Credit network of cooperative lending institutions, owned and operated by the very same farmers, ranchers and rural customers it serves. For nearly 100 years, Farm Credit has provided financing across rural America.