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Local News - Local News - August 16, 2012
Northwest Farm Credit Services posts jump in earnings
Ag lender says income up after refund of premiums, lower loan loss provision

By Treva Lind
Of the Journal of Business

Northwest Farm Credit Services, of Spokane, says it had second-quarter net income of $56.1 million, up sharply from $29.4 million in the 2011 second quarter.

For the first six months of 2012, the federally chartered ag lender reports earnings of $101.1 million, up from $71.6 million in the first half of last year.

The cooperative says the increased income is due mostly to a reduced provision for loan losses and a refund of premiums paid to the Farm Credit System Insur...


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