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Allowance for Credit Losses and Allowance for Unfunded Commitments and Letters of Credit (Allowance for Credit Losses) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2021	Mar. 31, 2020	Dec. 31, 2020	Jan. 01, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss	$ 148,294	$ 122,074	$ 149,140		$ 83,968
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Writeoff	(3,466)	(6,789)
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Recovery	3,420	1,763
Provision (recapture) for credit losses	(800)	41,500
Commercial Real Estate [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss	57,050	37,122	68,934		20,340
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Writeoff	0	(101)
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Recovery	36	14
Provision (recapture) for credit losses	(11,920)	9,336
Commercial Business [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss	58,405	45,570	45,250		30,292
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Writeoff	(3,339)	(1,684)
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Recovery	3,214	860
Provision (recapture) for credit losses	13,280	15,340
Agriculture [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss	9,487	11,085	9,052		15,835
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Writeoff	0	(4,726)
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Recovery	12	41
Provision (recapture) for credit losses	423	9,260
Construction [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss	6,551	8,845	7,636		8,571
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Writeoff	0	0
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Recovery	46	442
Provision (recapture) for credit losses	(1,131)	1,582
One-to-Four Family Residential [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss	15,638	17,659	16,875		7,435
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Writeoff	0	(10)
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Recovery	51	282
Provision (recapture) for credit losses	(1,288)	5,715
Consumer Loan [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss	1,163	1,644	$ 1,393		883
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Writeoff	(127)	(268)
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Recovery	61	124
Provision (recapture) for credit losses	$ (164)	127
Unallocated Financing Receivables [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss		149			$ 612
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Writeoff		0
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Recovery		0
Provision (recapture) for credit losses		$ 140
Accounting Standards Update 2016-13 [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Change in allowance for credit losses due to adoption of new ASU				$ 1,632
Accounting Standards Update 2016-13 [Member] \| Commercial Real Estate [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Change in allowance for credit losses due to adoption of new ASU				7,533
Accounting Standards Update 2016-13 [Member] \| Commercial Business [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Change in allowance for credit losses due to adoption of new ASU				762
Accounting Standards Update 2016-13 [Member] \| Agriculture [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Change in allowance for credit losses due to adoption of new ASU				(9,325)
Accounting Standards Update 2016-13 [Member] \| Construction [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Change in allowance for credit losses due to adoption of new ASU				(1,750)
Accounting Standards Update 2016-13 [Member] \| One-to-Four Family Residential [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Change in allowance for credit losses due to adoption of new ASU				4,237
Accounting Standards Update 2016-13 [Member] \| Consumer Loan [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Change in allowance for credit losses due to adoption of new ASU				778
Accounting Standards Update 2016-13 [Member] \| Unallocated Financing Receivables [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Roll Forward]
Change in allowance for credit losses due to adoption of new ASU				$ (603)