According to the Creighton University Rural Mainstreet Index, the rural economy has been supported by the higher commodity prices, federal farm payments and low interest rates. Forty-four percent of the bank CEO surveyed in the ten-state area expect low loan demand to be the greatest issue facing banks in the year ahead. The farmland price index increased in Minnesota and South Dakota. In North Dakota, farmland values declined a fraction of one percent.
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