Resolving the Farm Credit System’s Growing Credit-Quality Problems
By Bert Ely American agriculture is experiencing extraordinary financial stress, unlike anything farmers and ranchers have experienced in several decades....
Restructuring the Farm Credit System—Why Now and How to Do It
The FCS, America’s least known government-sponsored-enterprise, has an excessively complex and increasingly obsolete organizational structure. ... Simplifying the structure of...
Is the FCS Understating Its Emerging Credit-Quality Issues?
As bankers know all too well, farmers and ranchers are suffering from a sustained period of low commodity prices, rising...
Northwest FCS Lends Outside Its Territory
A recent Farm Credit System loan for $2 million to finance a new Exxon gas station and convenience store in...
FCA Chairman and CEO Dallas Tonsager Dies at 64
Dallas Tonsager, chairman and CEO of the Farm Credit Administration died of lymphoma on May 21; he was 64. Tonsager...
Farm Credit Watch: In Reporting Record Income for 2018, the FCS May Be Underestimating Future Loan Losses
In its recently issued Annual Information Statement for 2018, the FCS reported after-tax profits for 2018 of $5.33 billion and...
Farm Credit Watch: Large FCS Association Launches Consumer Lending Brand
On Aug.1, Farm Credit Mid-America (MidAm), the second largest FCS association, announced at a PGA Tour event that it was...
Farm Credit Watch: So Far, House, Senate Farm Bills Have Minor Impact on FCS
So far, the 2018 House and Senate Farm Bills now pending in Congress would have a minor impact on the...
