Regional Business and Economics Newspaper
November 1998
Scab: The Ninth District's agricultural plague of the '90s
Farmers in parts of the Ninth District face the greatest threat from crop disease
Annual Reports
fedgazetteCrop Disease
- Just what is scab?
Scab, a fungal plant disease, is strikingly described by three Ninth District plant pathologists in the following excerpt from their December 1997 article in the journal Plant Disease.
Opinion
- Can the U.S. economy weather world storms?
Minneapolis Fed President Gary Stern observes the nation's resilient economic performance in light of current and potential economic crises
Banking
- Despite weakening conditions in the agricultural sector, bank data generally indicate good performance
- Low commodity prices taking toll across the Ninth District.
Third Quarter 1998 Agricultural Credit Conditions Survey
District Data
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