Exhibit 99.2

       BROOKE CREDIT CORPORATION ANNOUNCES SELECTED RESULTS FOR JUNE 2005

    OVERLAND PARK, Kan., July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Michael Lowry,
President of Brooke Credit Corporation, the finance subsidiary of Brooke
Corporation (Nasdaq: BXXX), announced selected June 2005 results.

    Lowry announced that loan portfolio balances for Brooke Credit Corporation
on June 30, 2005, totaled approximately $232,000,000, as compared to loan
portfolio balances of approximately $220,000,000 on May 31, 2005, and
approximately $208,000,000 on April 30, 2005.

    Lowry also announced that, during June, Brooke Credit Corporation received
net interest and servicing income of approximately $709,000 and incurred
operating interest expense of approximately $104,000. To help put these June
results into perspective, Lowry noted that, during the preceding 12 months, the
monthly average of net interest and servicing income totaled approximately
$591,000 and the monthly average of operating interest expense totaled
approximately $90,000.

    Lowry also announced that, during June, Brooke Credit Corporation incurred a
gain on loan sale activities of approximately $384,000. To help observers put
the June gain on loan sale revenues into perspective, Lowry noted that, during
the preceding 12 months, the monthly average of gain on loan sale revenues
totaled approximately $312,000.

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

    About our company ... Brooke Credit Corporation is a subsidiary of Brooke
Corporation (Nasdaq: BXXX) that originates loans to insurance agencies,
financial services practices, funeral homes and other local businesses,
including Brooke franchises. Brooke Credit's loan portfolio balances totaled
approximately $232,000,000 on June 30, 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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Corporation's website at http://www.brookecorp.com and subscribe to our "Email
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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 availability of funding
sources, 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, the effectiveness of internal controls, and risks and factors
described from time to time in reports and registration statements filed by
Brooke Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Investors are
directed to Brooke Corporation's most recent annual, quarterly and current
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, larsa@brookecorp.com,
+1-913-661-0123/
    /Web site:  http://www.brookecorp.com /