Pub. 11 2016-2017 Issue 2

Commercial Lending Real Estate Lending Agricultural Lending Loan Workouts Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Tax Increment Financing Bond Financing Community Development SID Operation & Financing Real Estate Development Commercial Litigation 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, NE 68124 402.391.6777 Croker, Huck, Kasher, DeWitt, Anderson & Gonderinger, L.L.C. crokerlaw.com previously the FCS reported loan data based on the size of individual loans outstanding. Aggregating FCS loan data by borrower would, of course, significantly shrink the FCS’ YBS numbers, which should raise even more questions about how extensively the FCS serves YBS farmers. Even with its double- and triple-counting, FCS loans and commitments outstanding to beginning farmers and ranchers dropped from 17.3 percent of all FCS loans and commitments at the end of 2013 to 17.1 percent at the end of 2014 and to 16.9 percent at the end of 2015. Similar declines were seen in FCS lending to small and young farmers. Report FCS Lending Abuses Bankers are continuing to send Farm Credit Watch reports of FCS lending abuses such as FCS loans for rural estates, weekend getaways, and hunting preserves. Email reports of similar lending abuses in your market to: green- acres@ely-co.com.  To contact Bert Ely, email bert@ely-co.com , phone (703) 836-4101, fax (703) 836-1403, or send mail to P.O. Box 320700, Alexandria, Va. 22320. If your bank belongs to the American Bankers Association (ABA), you can enjoy a free email subscription to FCW or you can read it monthly online at www.aba.com . To receive FCW by email or to manage your subscription, visit ABAMember Email Bulletins at www.aba.com/Tools/Ebulletins/Pages/ default.aspx. For other inquiries, please contact Barbara McCoy at the ABA at (800) BANKERS or bmccoy@aba.com .