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Nearly half the bankers surveyed see forced sales or liquidations of farm assets owned by financially distressed farmers ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. BANGOR — The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency reminds ...

Farm debt continued to rise, particularly non-real estate loans, with outstanding agricultural loan balances at commercial banks increasing by about 5%, according to an ag finance update from the ...

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 ...

The federal government announced Tuesday a program that will provide billions of dollars in debt relief for about 36,000 farmers who have fallen behind on loan payments or face foreclosure. The U.S.

Lester Bonner, a tobacco farmer in Virginia, opened his mailbox one morning last June to find a letter from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The five-page missive said the remaining balance on a ...

ON December 2, 1913, in addressing Congress on rural credits, President Wilson said: ‘The farmers, of course, ask and should be given no special privilege, such as extending to them the credit of the ...