updated Fri. April 19, 2024
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Delta Farm Press
April 13, 2018
This year will be another challenging year for many agricultural producers, according to a report presented to the Farm Credit Administration board on April 12, 2018. Based on its first forecast of the 2018 farm economy, USDA projects net farm income to decline by 6.7%, with both crop and animal receiptsÃâà...
Mondaq News Alerts
April 8, 2018
Mr. Behnam said that the CFTC, the Farm Credit Administration and stakeholders should continue to work with borrowers and creditors to educate them about the futures market and the role it plays in risk management. In a separate statement, CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz voiced his support for theÃâà...
Exchange News Direct
April 5, 2018
[5] I look forward to hearing from the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) today about the various ways the FCA and the private sector can continue to meet the financing needs of farmers and ranchers. From our final panel, we will hear from CME about the recent implementation of block trading in certainÃâà...
ABA Banking Journal (blog)
March 30, 2018
Additionally, the Farm Credit Administration withdrew from its database all Lone Star call reports filed with the FCA after 2015. In effect, Lone Star's finances have been a black hole for over two years. Worse, Lone Star “is not in compliance with some requirements of its general financing agreement with theÃâà...
Bloomberg BNA
March 27, 2018
The statement for the Department of Agriculture, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Farm Credit Administration says, for example, that the agencies “should be mindful of Congressional authority to determine and set final funding levels for fiscal year 2019.” “Therefore, the agencies should notÃâà...
ExpressNewsline
March 25, 2018
According to the Farm Credit Administration, total USA agricultural exports stood just under $140 billion in 2015, with Mainland China being the number one destination accounting for $22.5 billion worth of goods. The list will be made public in 15 days, and the tariffs would take effect after a period of publicÃâà...
Kankakee Daily Journal
March 23, 2018
The merger also was voted on and approved by the membership and board of directors of each organization and received final regulatory approval from the Farm Credit Administration, a federal agency created in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt to ensure safe, sound and dependable credit forÃâà...
ABA Banking Journal (blog)
February 28, 2018
Much to my surprise, Dallas Tonsager, the chairman and CEO of the Farm Credit Administration (FCA), in a Jan. 30 speech to the Farm Credit Council (the FCS trade association), effectively endorsed what FCSA has offered to its borrowers and encouraged other associations to do the same thing.
Mondaq News Alerts
February 27, 2018
Designated "prudential regulators" under Dodd-Frank include the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Farm Credit Administration, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (collectively, theÃâà...
Fence Post
February 1, 2018
Glen Smith, the newly confirmed Republican member of the Farm Credit Administration board, has named Jim Morris as his executive assistant. Morris is coming out of retirement to take the position. In 1987, he joined FCA's Office of the General Counsel where he spent the next 19 years working as anÃâà...
Farm Futures
December 22, 2017
Smith is president and co-owner of Smith Land Service, a company he founded in 1982. Dec 22, 2017. Glen R. Smith of Atlantic, Iowa, was sworn in Dec. 14 as a member of the Farm Credit Administration board. He was appointed to a term that expires May 21, 2022. “It gives me great pleasure to welcome Glen to this boardÃâà...
Agri-Pulse
December 6, 2017
Congratulations to Glen R. Smith who was confirmed by the Senate Tuesday as a member of the Farm Credit Administration Board. Smith owns a family farm in western Iowa that includes 2,000 acres of corn and soybeans. He also is the co-founder of Smith Land Services, a company that specializes inÃâà...
Radio Iowa
September 18, 2017
A western Iowa businessman and farmer will be joining a federal agency that regulates financial institutions that provide credit to farmers, ranchers, and rural utility cooperatives. The nomination of Glen R. Smith of Atlantic to become a member of the Farm Credit Administration was announced late last weekÃâà...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
December 31, 1999
And Glen Smith of Indiana, who backed Bush, was selected for Farm Credit Administration Board. Some later donated to Trump but only after he became the presumptive Republican nominee. Hicks, McGoff and Kirk declined to comment. The others did not return messages. Most supporters contacted byÃâà...
Minnesota Public Radio News (blog)
December 31, 1999
She met her love in 1935 in Brainerd, Minn., when working in the Farm Credit Administration office, where farmers who ran out of money “came in and got huge amounts of money. I think it was $20 or $30 a month.” Edward Burke, who ran the office, was a man of honor. “He never asked me for a date whileÃâà...
