Commitments and Contingent Liabilities (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

Commitments and Contingent Liabilities [Abstract]

Maximum Commitments Potential Obligation

The Company is a party to certain financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk in the normal course of business to meet the financing needs of its customers. These financial instruments include commitments to extend credit, unused lines of credit, standby letters of credit and certain agricultural real estate loans sold to investors with recourse, with the sold portion having a government guarantee that is assignable back to the Company upon repurchase of the loan in the event of default. The Company’s exposure to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by the other party to the commitments to extend credit, unused lines of credit, standby letters of credit and loans sold with recourse is represented by the contractual amount of those instruments. The credit risk associated with commitments to extend credit and standby and commercial letters of credit is essentially the same as that involved with extending loans to customers and is subject to normal credit policies. Collateral may be obtained based on management’s assessment of the customer’s creditworthiness. 

	At December 31,
(In thousands)	2018		2017
Unused lines of credit	$	313,987	$	351,227
Commitments to extend credits, primarily variable rate		1,420,795		1,215,187
Standby letters of credit		41,194		41,135
Loans sold with recourse		27,223		29,120