Ag lending

The impasse has halted grant and loan applications and frozen many farm subsidies just weeks ahead of planting season.

Financial institutions of all sizes are offering low- or zero-rate loans, waiving fees and making other arrangements to aid federal workers — a practice that regulators officially blessed on Friday, the 21st day of the closing of many U.S. agencies.

The banking industry has long been critical of the government-sponsored enterprise, but the system could provide valuable banking services to large swaths of the country currently lacking access to them.

Banks were reluctant to offer services to an industry that had a hazy legal status. That’s about to change.

On Sept. 30, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

Dozens of House members and four senators agree with arguments by farmers and lenders that a proposed change to the 7(a) program would disqualify worthy borrowers.

Can farmers — and the banks that lend to them — survive Trump's trade war?

Organizers of the credit union believe there is a funding gap in the state for agriculture and want to fill the void.

Harvest is when farmers need funding the most. ProducePay has financed over $850 million of produce in under four years, disrupting traditional finance rules in the farm-to-table process.

Bankers complain that the quasi-governmental system's new program designed to make more residential loans in four states goes well beyond its original mission.