The Rural
Mainstreet Index for March shows the rural economy is expanding even though the
ag industry continues to face challenges.
“Agriculture
continues to limp along,” he says. “It has a lot to do with trade agreements
and agriculture commodity prices continue to be weaker than we’d like to see.”
Ernie Goss with Creighton University in Nebraska says recent floods negatively influenced the economic outlook of ag bankers surveyed even though the survey occurred before most of the negative impacts of flooding were known.
