Jeffrey Gerhart, CEO of the Bank of Newman Grove in northeastern Nebraska, says the tariffs are affecting farmers' income and are bad policy from the White House.
The index is based on surveys of rural bankers in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.
A thief has snipped the hair off another horse tail in Wyoming. Chet Yoder reports. A monthly survey of bankers says that strong farm income continues to boost the economy on rural areas of 10 Midwest and Plains states. Doug Randall reports. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.