For ag lenders, credit quality and the deterioration of agricultural loans, competition from other lenders and weak loan demand remain the top three concerns. For producers, lenders continued to be most concerned about the liquidity, income and leverage of their ag borrowers.
By Bert Ely As bankers and other FCW readers know all too well, American agriculture…
ABA told the Farm Credit Administration today that proposed changes to regulatory capital rules could potentially destabilize financial markets and increase risks to the safety and soundness of Farm Credit System institutions.
By Bert Ely The FCA is administered by a three-member board of directors; the chairman…
By Bert Ely On Aug. 3, Fitch, one of the three major debt rating agencies,…
The FCS’s issuance of short-term securities, called discount notes, nearly doubled during the first quarter, rising by $17 billion between the end of 2019 and March 31, 2020. That increase accounted for 80 percent of the FCS’s first quarter rise in total system-wide debt outstanding.
In a recent column in the Kansas Banker magazine, Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) urged support for an ABA-advocated bill that would end taxation of interest earned from agricultural real estate loans.
In January, the Farm Credit Administration proposed two potentially significant regulations that could have mixed…
By Bert Ely American agriculture is experiencing extraordinary financial stress, unlike anything farmers and ranchers…
With the farm economy in the midst of a prolonged downturn, the primary concern among ag lenders in 2019 was credit quality and the deterioration of agricultural loans, according to the latest agricultural lenders survey conducted by the American Bankers Association and Farmer Mac.