LOANS - Average Balance of Impaired Loans and Income Recognized on Impaired Loans (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020	Sep. 30, 2019	Sep. 30, 2020	Sep. 30, 2019
LOANS
Average Investment in Impaired Loans	$ 12,519	$ 5,762	$ 10,163	$ 7,074
Interest Income Recognized on Impaired Loans on a Cash Basis	103	110	237	224
Residential mortgage
LOANS
Average Investment in Impaired Loans	2,608	1,407	2,030	1,302
Interest Income Recognized on Impaired Loans on a Cash Basis	32	32	90	52
Residential mortgage \| Real estate loan \| first liens
LOANS
Average Investment in Impaired Loans	2,159	1,057	1,579	997
Interest Income Recognized on Impaired Loans on a Cash Basis	27	21	70	39
Residential mortgage \| Real estate loan \| junior liens
LOANS
Average Investment in Impaired Loans	384	285	386	289
Interest Income Recognized on Impaired Loans on a Cash Basis	5	8	18	10
Residential mortgage \| Home Equity Line of Credit [Member]
LOANS
Average Investment in Impaired Loans	65	65	65	16
Interest Income Recognized on Impaired Loans on a Cash Basis	0	3	2	3
Commercial
LOANS
Average Investment in Impaired Loans	9,911	4,355	8,133	5,768
Interest Income Recognized on Impaired Loans on a Cash Basis	71	78	147	172
Commercial \| Real estate loan
LOANS
Average Investment in Impaired Loans	7,298	1,738	3,779	2,371
Interest Income Recognized on Impaired Loans on a Cash Basis	65	49	81	66
Commercial \| Commercial and industrial
LOANS
Average Investment in Impaired Loans	2,235	1,202	3,178	1,460
Interest Income Recognized on Impaired Loans on a Cash Basis	1	4	21	38
Commercial \| Construction Loans
LOANS
Average Investment in Impaired Loans	49	0	678	0
Interest Income Recognized on Impaired Loans on a Cash Basis	1	0	14	0
Commercial \| Loans secured by farm land
LOANS
Average Investment in Impaired Loans	253	1,359	397	1,443
Interest Income Recognized on Impaired Loans on a Cash Basis	2	23	26	42
Commercial \| Agricultural loans
LOANS
Average Investment in Impaired Loans	76	6	76	481
Interest Income Recognized on Impaired Loans on a Cash Basis	2	0	4	24
Commercial \| Other commercial loans
LOANS
Average Investment in Impaired Loans	0	50	25	13
Interest Income Recognized on Impaired Loans on a Cash Basis	0	2	1	2
Consumer
LOANS
Average Investment in Impaired Loans	0	0	0	4
Interest Income Recognized on Impaired Loans on a Cash Basis	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0

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Average amount of investment of impaired financing receivables with related allowance for credit losses and without a related allowance for credit losses.

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