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Farmers & Merchants Bank is excited to feature McBride Trucking & Excavating Inc. as our “Smart Business” of the month. McBride Trucking & Excavating, Inc. is located in Fairbury, Nebraska, and offers demolition services, building fills, dirt work, basement digging and hauling services to Fairbury and surrounding communities. Larry and Lori McBride purchased, Bramhall Trucking […]

—By Scott Boyles, Chief Lending Officer People have been using the equity in their home as a source of funding for years, and for many reasons. For some, it’s to pay down high interest credit cards. Others need to pay for a child’s college education or want to renovate a portion, or all, of their home. […]

Your home is special. To you and your family. From a dining room table holding a delicious stuffed turkey on Thanksgiving, to Jack’s first birthday party where frosting met the new grout on the kitchen floor for the first time, to Holly’s graduation party—the last family gathering she had as a permanent resident of the […]

Bust the myths of debit card security, meet the 6th generation farm family who’s our featured Smart Business and learn how to make paying your bills simple, painless and secure. Read on to sound smart at dinner tonight. Go to Newsletter »

—By Gerry A. Dunlap, President and Chief Executive Officer We’ve all felt it, the gut-wrenching feeling of looking in your wallet and not seeing your debit card in the second slot of the third fold—where it always goes. Or, pulling up your bank statement online and seeing a charge that you know you didn’t make. […]

Farmers & Merchants Bank is happy to feature the Cast Family as our Smart Business of the month. Their story began in 1893, when they emigrated from Germany to Nebraska. They put down roots in Seward County and built a farm that continues to be the foundation of the family. Roy Cast, along with Norma, […]

You’ve done it. We all have. You pay the bills on Saturday and the following Thursday you discover the dental bill that was due two weeks ago. You have the best of intentions, but life gets busy. Between buying gas, food and Joey’s new soccer shoes for next week’s practice, it’s no wonder things get […]

Find out in this issue –> if writing checks is old hat or if they’re here to stay, see who was picked as the hottest Smart Business of the month and learn how to use our mobile app to manage, track and control your banking transactions – anytime, anywhere. Click below and read all about it. […]

Farmers & Merchants Bank is happy to feature Hertz/Thrifty Car Sales Kearney as our Smart Business of the month. Twenty-three years ago, in 1995, Darin opened a car rental location in North Platte, with his brother, Chris, to serve the North Platte airport and surrounding area. In 1999, Darin opened a Kearney location and Chris […]

You have the best intentions to record every receipt, deposit and transaction you make. But, it doesn’t always happen. Heck, you can’t always remember what you had for lunch yesterday let alone the intent of a check you wrote three weeks ago. We get it. And we fixed it. With Farmers & Merchants mobile app, […]