Ely Calls for Fundamental Restructuring of Farm Credit System
In a white paper circulated recently on Capitol Hill, industry veteran Bert Ely called for an overhaul of the Farm Credit System.
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Congress Increases Debt Limit for Chapter 12 Bankruptcies
Just prior to going into recess for August, the Senate on Thursday passed an ABA-opposed bill that would significantly raise the current debt limit for Chapter 12 bankruptcy filings.
ABA Opposes Debt Limit Change for Chapter 12 Bankruptcies
The American Bankers Association today urged lawmakers not to vote for a bill that would significantly raise the current debt limit for Chapter 12 bankruptcy filings.
ABA Seeks Greater Regulatory Clarity About Hemp
While the 2018 Farm Bill reclassified hemp as a legal agricultural commodity, banks still face challenges in serving hemp producers and hemp-related businesses, the American Bankers Association said today in a statement submitted for the record of a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing.
ABA Opposes Debt Limit Change for Chapter 12 Bankruptcies
A proposed change to Chapter 12 of the Bankruptcy Code could have adverse effects for the nation’s agricultural producers, the American Bankers Association said in a statement for the record in a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing held today.
ABA Seeks Greater Clarity on Banks’ Ability to Serve Industrial Hemp Businesses
In a letter to the heads of the financial regulatory agencies on Friday, the American Bankers Association called for greater clarification on how banks may serve businesses dealing with hemp.
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 input costs, heavy rains and flooding, and more recently, trade issues that are harming agricultural exports. Not surprising, those factors have hurt farm income, which peaked in 2013. As in past cycles, sustained declines in farm income lead to increased cash-flow problems for farmers and ranchers, which in turn lead to rising credit-quality problems for ag lenders. Even though the FCS focuses on lending to financially stronger farmers, a key question is how well the FCS is acknowledging growing credit-quality problems in its loan portfolio and/or shedding weaker credits by calling loans and not renewing lines of credit.
ABA Data Bank: Farm Bank Loan Performance Remains Consistently Strong
Read more from ABA’s Hugo Dante.
Farm Banks Remain Strong Despite Recent Loan Weakness
Farm banks remain in a strong position despite a recent uptick in farm loan delinquencies.
ABA Supports Senate Bill to Lower Loan Costs for Farmers, Ranchers
The American Bankers Association wrote to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today expressing support for his bill, S. 1641, which would amend the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income interest received on certain loans secured by agricultural real property.