Main Street begins to feel the pinch of lower farm income

Farmers and ranchers are tightening their purse strings and spending less in town, say farm bankers across the Farm Belt. With farm income down due to sharply lower commodity prices, cutbacks are expected to continue into the fall at a minimum. Forty percent of the farm bankers in the central Plains who took part in… » Read More

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