Farm Credit Services of America returns $160 million to area farmers

Farm Credit Services of America has announced that eligible customer-owners in 13 counties in the Panhandle of Nebraska and Southeast Wyoming will receive checks this month totaling $3,019,000 – their share of the financial cooperative’s record $160 million cash-back dividend for 2014.

FCSAmerica has distributed a portion of its net earnings to eligible customer-owners for each of the past 11 years, returning a total of nearly $1 billion in cash-back dividends to farmers, ranchers and their local communities. The share returned to customer-owners in the two local offices serving Banner, Box Bu...