Posts By: Betsy Urso

AMERICAN BANKER ‘Nobody Has Working Capital’: Ag Lenders Lament Trade War’s Impact By: Jon Prior Loss of income resulting from the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China is forcing more farmers to tap the resilient value of their land to keep them going through next year’s planting season. According to a survey of… Read more »

Libor Transition: What Are the Implications for Treasury? Association for Financial Professionals Libor is expected to be phased out by the end of 2021. Alternatives to Libor rates are emerging across the globe and mechanisms for establishing contractual fallbacks and adjustments to Libor-indexed financial instruments are being developed to minimize disruption. If Libor does end,… Read more »

Ag Lender Survey Shows Lower Profitability and Higher Concerns Hoosier Ag Today By: NAFB News Service The American Bankers Association teamed up with Farmer Mac for their Fall 2019 Ag Lender Survey. The biggest takeaway from the report is that the agricultural economy and farm income remain under stress, with little if any signs of… Read more »

Bankers: Only 57% of farm operations profitable in 2019 The Hagstrom Report Lenders reported that just over 57% of their agricultural borrowers were profitable in 2019, according to a survey of 450 loan officers, managers and executives released by the American Bankers Association and Farmer Mac, the nation’s secondary market for agricultural credit. When the… Read more »

Is liquidity your No. 1 concern? FarmProgress By: Ben Potter New survey results offer key insights into farm lending landscape The general tone at this year’s ABA Agricultural Bankers Conference in Dallas could be boiled down to two words: cautiously optimistic. With many farmer’s incomes in a slump for the past six or seven years,… Read more »

ABA, Farmer Mac Ag Lender Survey Reveals Top Issues For 2020 GrowersPoint.com Source: American Bankers Assn news release Dallas, TX – As the farm economy continues to work through a prolonged downturn, credit quality and the deterioration of agricultural loans remains the top concern for ag lenders, according to the Fall 2019 Agricultural Lender Survey… Read more »

ABA Survey: Credit Quality Tops List of Concerns for Ag Lenders in 2019 ABA Banking Journal 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… Read more »

We firmly believe that sharing information and insight is extremely important, particularly in changing economic times such as these. To that end, for the last three years, we have teamed up with the American Bankers Association to survey a broad number of ag lenders regarding their local economic and lending conditions. Through the questionnaire, ag… Read more »