Exhibit 99.02

      BROOKE CREDIT CORPORATION ANNOUNCES SELECTED RESULTS FOR JANUARY 2005

        OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Michael Lowry,
President of Brooke Credit Corporation, the finance subsidiary of Brooke
Corporation (Amex: BXX), announced selected January 2005 results.

        Lowry announced that loan portfolio balances for Brooke Credit
Corporation totaled approximately $185,000,000 on January 31, 2005, as compared
to loan portfolio balances of approximately $183,000,000 on December 31, 2004,
and approximately $179,000,000 on November 30, 2004. Portfolio balances exclude
loan balances of Brooke Credit Corporation's parent and sister companies.

        Lowry also announced that during January, Brooke Credit Corporation
received net interest and servicing income of approximately $510,000.
Additionally, Lowry announced that Brooke Credit Corporation received loan fee
income of approximately $181,000, from newly originated loans. To help observers
put the January revenue results into perspective, Lowry noted that during the
preceding 12 months, the monthly average of net interest and servicing income
totaled approximately $410,000 and loan fee income averaged approximately
$201,000.

        Lowry also announced that during January, Brooke Credit Corporation
incurred a loss on loan sale activities of approximately $127,000. The Company
typically experiences a loss on loan sale activities when the monthly write-
down of retained interest asset to fair market value on previously sold loans
exceeds the gains from new loan sales activities within a given month. To help
observers put this January revenue result into perspective, Lowry noted that
during the preceding 12 months, the monthly average of gain on loan sale
revenues totaled approximately $206,000.

        All revenue results included within this press release exclude revenues
derived from lending activities with parent and sister companies.

        Brooke Corporation expects to announce its fourth quarter and fiscal
year 2004 consolidated financial results in March 2005.

        About our company ... Brooke Credit Corporation is a subsidiary of
Brooke Corporation (Amex: BXX) that originates loans to insurance agencies,
financial services practices, funeral homes and other local businesses,
including Brooke franchises. Loan portfolio balances totaled approximately
$185,000,000 on January 31, 2005. Loans have been mostly sold as individual
loans to participating lenders or as pooled loans to investors through asset
backed securitizations. The Brooke organization was founded on the belief that
local business owners distribute insurance and financial services more
efficiently than others if supported by a franchise system.

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        This press release may contain forward-looking statements. Investors are
cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties,
and several factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those
in the forward-looking statements. The following factors, among others, could
cause actual results to differ from those indicated in the forward-looking
statements: the uncertainty that the Company will achieve its short-term and
long-term profitability and growth goals, uncertainties associated with market
acceptance of and demand for the Company's products and services, the impact of
competitive products and pricing, the dependence on third party suppliers and
their pricing, its ability to meet product demand, the exposure to market risks,
uncertainties associated with the development of technology, changes in the law
and in economic, political and regulatory environments, changes in management,
the dependence on intellectual property rights, and the effectiveness of
internal controls. Investors are directed to Brooke Corporation's most recent
annual and quarterly reports, which are available from Brooke Corporation
without charge or at http://www.sec.gov , for a more complete description of
Brooke's business.

SOURCE  Brooke Corporation
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        /CONTACT:  Anita Larson of Brooke Corporation, +1-913-661-0123,
larsa@brookecorp.com /
        /Web site:  http://www.brookecorp.com