Alongside strong growth in farm loans, liquidity at commercial agricultural banks tightened and earnings increased during the third quarter, the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank reported Wednesday.

Strong credit demand from U.S. farmers pushed the average size of operating loans to a record and pushed up lending volumes in 2025, according to the National Survey of Terms of Lending to Farmers ...

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As we head into 2025, many farm operations are coming off a relatively poor profit year in 2024. Some farmers had very small profit levels last year, while others had extremely poor results in 2024.

The Farm Service Agency of the United States Department of Agriculture has loans available for the purchase of a farm or downpayment on a purchase. It also has operating loans for Targeted Underserved ...

Farm groups are calling for Agriculture Department loan program payment rates to be increased in the upcoming farm bill, while agency officials look at other ways to make the programs more accessible ...

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