Business : Farmers Savings Bank & Trust earns Top 15th Percentile ranking

Seifried & Brew LLC, a community bank risk management firm, named Farmers Savings Bank & Trust, Traer and Vinton, in its 2011 Top 15th Percentile of Community Banks. To gain entry into this distinguished ranking, the Bank demonstrated exemplary performance of balancing risk and reward based on the Bank’s S & B Total Risk/Return Composite Ranking. This is no small feat considering that the Bank not only survived the Financial Crisis, but actually thrived. This supports S & F’s belief that conservative, traditional community banking is the strength of our financial system.

Darlys Hulme, president, stated that Farmers Savings Bank & Trust was chartered in 1915 and has over $175 million in assets. Community bankers plan an important role with their local knowledge and the trust of their customers. Individuals and small businesses depend on those relationships and benefit from them.