Podcast: Strategies to help America’s agricultural producers

The Senate Agriculture Committee advanced legislation to give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission the authority to regulate a broad range of digital assets.

Small business owners' priorities and how banks can meet their needs in 2026, from SBA lending to succession planning and acquisition financing.

Bankers face challenges and opportunities in multiple key areas.

ABA offered several recommendations for how the IRS should implement a new tax benefit for lenders serving rural and agricultural communities, which was included in a tax package passed by Congress last year.

The dashboard includes total loan volume, average loan size, loan distribution by sector, geographic spread, and delinquency rates. Data is refreshed monthly and can be downloaded down to the individual loan, USDA officials said.

If Texas were an independent country, its economy would rank as the world's eighth-largest. "France is seventh, and I don't think it'll take as much time at all to catch them," laughs TBA Chairman Ron Butler.