The 66th annual Agricultural Credit School was held on the ISU campus from June 6 to 10. The Ag Credit School is carried out jointly by the Department of Economics and the Iowa Bankers Association. This year 50 lenders from community banks in Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota, plus the Iowa Farm Service Agency attended the first year class, and 28 more were enrolled in the second year class.

Faculty and staff from the Department who were involved in carrying out the school included William Edwards (co-director), Chad Hart, Mike Duffy, Keri Jacobs, Shane Ellis and Dave Baker. In addition, five ISU Extension farm management field specialists were part of the teaching team. Topics included developing and analyzing financial statements; lending for crops, livestock and farm real estate; marketing tools; managing risk; legal and tax aspects of lending; financing small agri-businesses; and analysis of case studies.