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. ...
Tag: Farm Credit System
ABA Survey: Credit Quality Tops List of Concerns for Ag Lenders in 2019
With the farm economy in the midst of a prolonged downturn, the primary concern among ag lenders in 2019 was ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
ABA Urges Farm Credit Agency to Make Changes to YBS Data Reporting Practices
In a comment letter to the Farm Credit Administration today, the American Bankers Association called on the agency to make ...
ABA Supports Bill to Level Playing Field with Farm Credit
The American Bankers Association today wrote to House lawmakers in support of H.R. 1872, the Enhancing Credit Opportunities in Rural ...
ABA-Backed Bill Would Level Playing Field for Banks on Farm Real Estate Loans
Rep. Steve Watkins (R-Kan.) today introduced the Enhancing Credit Opportunities for Rural America Act (H.R. 1872), which would end taxation ...
