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2018 Farm Bank Performance Report

  • Published April 23, 2019

The banking industry is the nation’s most important supplier of credit to agriculture providing approximately 50 percent of all farm loans in the U.S.— $186 billion as of December 2018.

The U.S. banking industry is a major provider of credit to agriculture with more than $186 billion in farm loans extended— approximately 50 percent of the total farm credit outstanding in the U.S.—as of year-end 2018.
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This paper examines the 2018 performance of the 1,772 banks that specialize in lending to agriculture. These farm banks have 8,057 offices and employ 86,000 workers. Employment at farm banks increased by 1.8 percent in 2018. Since the end of 2008, employment at farm banks is up 24.4 percent.

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