farm loans

USDA head Tom Vilsack says as far as he’s concerned, the star of the show if the America farmer and the Department of Ag is going to do what it can to keep those farmers on the land.  And that assistance, he noted, is coming via the Inflation Reduction Act.     Curr...

Senators Chuck Grassley and Sherrod Brown introduced legislation this week to prevent foreign individuals from obtaining credit and financial services through the Farm Credit System.  The Iowa Republican and Ohio Democrat content that currently, certain foreign individuals and entities are eligible to receive credit through this government-sponsored enterprise.   ...

The Kansas City Fed says agricultural credit conditions remained strong in the second quarter, but slower improvement is expected during the months ahead.  Those bankers who responded to the Federal Reserve Survey of Agricultural Credit Conditions said farm income continued to increase.  However...

Larger loans continued to boost lending activity in the second quarter of 2022 while farm loan interest rates edged higher.  The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City said the volume of non-real estate agricultural loans grew steadily alongside an increase in the number and average size of loans.  In...

Farm real estate debt at commercial banks grew modestly in the first quarter, while production loans remained steady. The Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank said alongside soaring farmland values, real estate loan balances increased at the fastest pace in four years and drove an increase in the overall amount of agricultural lending ...

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City said farm lending activity at commercial banks increased during the first quarter of 2022 due to a significant increase in the size of operating loans. With some input costs surging in recent months, the volume of operating loans increased sharply from a year ago, and non-real estate lending increased on a rolling four-quarter basis for the first time since

Farm debt at commercial banks showed signs of stabilizing at the end of 2021. Driven by a higher balance of real estate and non-real estate loans, agricultural debt increased for the first time since 2019. The Kansas City Federal Reserve said while the pullback in lending abated, agricultural loan balances remained below the recent historic average ...

USDA's rural development community facilities funding, recently highlighted by a $1-billion award to projects nationwide, consist of several grant and loan programs within rural development. And as Washington State Rural Development Director Helen Price Johnson points out, funding vehicles can be combined to bring needed facilities projects together ...

Smaller sized loans limited agricultural lending activity at the end of 2021. The Survey of Terms of Lending to Farmers shows non-real estate agricultural loans at commercial banks decreased by 13% in the fourth quarter, and the yearly average was the lowest since 2012 ...

The USDA’s Farm Service Agency offers both farm ownership and operating loans to underserved producers or farmers just starting out. Farm loan chief, Steven King, says loans are available for operating funds to purchase inputs and supplies to get through the crop year. "That ...