Exhibit 99.2

      BROOKE CREDIT CORPORATION ANNOUNCES SELECTED RESULTS FOR AUGUST 2005

    OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Sept. 19 -- Michael Lowry, President of Brooke Credit
Corporation, the finance subsidiary of Brooke Corporation (Nasdaq: BXXX),
announced selected August 2005 results.

    Lowry announced that loan portfolio balances for Brooke Credit Corporation
on August 31, 2005, totaled approximately $251,000,000 as compared to loan
portfolio balances of approximately $240,000,000 on July 31, 2005, and
approximately $232,000,000 on June 30, 2005.

    Lowry also announced that, during August, Brooke Credit Corporation received
net interest and servicing income of approximately $992,000 and incurred
operating interest expense of approximately $235,000. To help put these August
results into perspective, Lowry noted that, during the preceding 12 months, the
monthly average of net interest and servicing income totaled approximately
$634,000 and the monthly average of operating interest expense totaled
approximately $104,000.

    Lowry also announced that, during August, Brooke Credit Corporation incurred
a loss on loan sale activities of approximately $901,000. The Company
experienced a loss on loan sales activities because it reacquired some
previously sold loans for its inventory and as the result of the monthly
write-down of retained interest asset to fair market value on previously sold
loans. To help observers put the August loss on loan sale activities into
perspective, Lowry noted that, during the preceding 12 months, the monthly
average of gain on loan sale revenues totaled approximately $278,000.

    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 $251,000,000 on August 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 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.