The quarterly report shows the availability of funds for lending by agricultural banks was lower than in 2017 for the fifth quarter in a row. At the same time, the demand for non-real estate farm loans was higher than a year earlier.

The latest episode of Ag Equipment Intelligence’s On the Record is now available! In this week's broadcast we look at how dealers' sales outlook for 2018 compares to that of the OEMs, cyber-based security threats to precision farming and an increase in non-real estate farm loans. In addition, we look into the University of Missouri's Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute's forecast for net farm income in 2018 and 2019, North American ag equipment sales through the first three quarters of 2018 and an improvement in irrigation equipment sales for Lindsay.