Source: Jennifer M. Latzke, HIGH PLAINS JOURNAL, 12/23/19



A lot rides on the 2018 farm bill’s safety net of commodity price protections and crop insurance for U.S. farmers. Mother Nature wasn’t exactly the most cooperative of business partners in 2019. Trade wars with major U.S. commodity customers haven’t helped farm level prices. And this is on top of a slowing ag economy in its seventh year. Agricultural lenders took to Capitol Hill to testify to the current credit conditions in farm country before the U.S. House Agricultural Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.

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