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Note 5 - Long-term Debt | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements |
Long-term Debt [Text Block] |
5. Long-Term Debt
|  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Revolving credit facility 3.35% and 2.22%, due through 2022 |  | $ | 293,459 |  |  | $ | 214,781 |
Farm Credit term loan 4.48% and 3.38%, due 2022 |  |  | 99,871 |  |  |  | 99,836 |
Bluegrass tax exempt bonds 3.11%, due 2033 |  |  | 9,983 |  |  |  | - |
Secured promissory note 6.98%, due through 2022 |  |  | 8,438 |  |  |  | 10,340 |
Lease financing obligations 2.62%, due through 2020 |  |  | 4,028 |  |  |  | 4,679 |
Secured promissory note 6.35%, due through 2020 |  |  | 1,046 |  |  |  | 1,782 |
Economic development note 2.00%, due through 2021 |  |  | 793 |  |  |  | 999 |
Other |  |  | 216 |  |  |  | 216 |
|  |  | 417,834 |  |  |  | 332,633 |
Less current portion |  |  | 3,702 |  |  |  | 3,495 |
|  | $ | 414,132 |  |  | $ | 329,138 |
See Note 4, Short-Term Borrowings, for discussion of the Revolver. The Company’s debt agreements, including the Revolver and term loan, contain covenants that restrict the Company’s ability to incur additional indebtedness, pay dividends on the Company’s capital stock, make other restricted payments, including investments, sell the Company’s assets, incur liens, transfer all or substantially all of the Company’s assets and enter into consolidations or mergers. The Company’s debt agreements also require the Company to meet certain financial covenants, including a minimum fixed charge coverage ratio, a minimum interest coverage ratio and minimum tangible net worth. The Revolver also contains borrowing base requirements related to accounts receivable and inventories. These financial requirements and ratios generally become more restrictive over time and are subject to allowances for seasonal fluctuations. The most restrictive financial covenant in the debt agreements is the interest coverage ratio within the Farm Credit term loan which for 2018 was defined as greater than 4 to 1. However, this covenant was updated in connection with an amendment on June 18, 2018. The interest coverage ratio will be 1.1 to 1.0 through December 31, 2018, 2.0 to 1.0 from March 31, 2019, through September 30, 2019 and 4.0 to 1.0, thereafter. The Company computes its financial covenants as if the Company were on the FIFO method of inventory accounting. The Company has met or has received a waiver/amendment for all such financial covenants as of March 31, 2018. The Company's debt agreements limit the payment of dividends and other distributions. There is an annual total distribution limitation of $50,000, less aggregate annual dividend payments totaling $23,000 that the Company presently pays on two outstanding classes of preferred stock. On August 16, 2016, the Company paid off four industrial revenue bonds ("IRBs"), totaling $22.6 million. On December 9, 2016, the Company entered into a $100.0 million unsecured term loan payable to Farm Credit East, ACA, with a variable interest rate. The maturity date for this term loan is of December 9, 2021. The Company incurred financing costs totaling $0.2 million which have been classified as a discount to the debt. The Company assumed a tax-exempt bond with the Truitt acquisition on April 3, 2017. At March 31, 2018, the total outstanding of this bond is $10.0 million. The bond has a variable interest rate with a maturity date of October 1, 2032. The carrying value of assets pledged for secured debt, including the Revolver, is $900.3 million. Debt repayment requirements for the next five fiscal years are (in thousands):
2019 |  | $ | 3,702 |
2020 |  |  | 3,217 |
2021 |  |  | 5,518 |
2022 |  |  | 395,197 |
2023 |  |  | - |
Thereafter |  |  | 10,200 |
Total |  | $ | 417,834 |

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