Ed Maixner

The Small Business Administration has heard from over 2,700 farmers, including poultry feeders, and rural small businesses and others mostly opposed to amendments to the SBA's Express Loans regulation that would make any operator getting more than 85 percent of revenue from a single source (rather than a usual 70 percent SBA ceiling) ineligible for those loans

In Creighton University's Rural Main Street Index for October, bankers report a growing economy overall in the nation's heartland but a lagging, tariff-encumbered farm sector.