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Farm Service Agency

Programs Overview FSA Disaster Assistance

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

Farm Service Agency (FSA) Overview

• Part of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), under the

new Farm Production and Conservation mission area:

• Farm Service Agency (FSA)
• Risk Management Agency (RMA)
• Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
• FSA delivers farm programs, loans to help agricultural

producers, partner organizations provide food, fuel, fiber

• Farm Bill – FSA administers 50 federal programs

authorized by 2014 Farm Bill

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Farm Service Agency (FSA) Overview

• 173 Service

Centers across Texas, serving all 254 counties

• State Office in

College Station

• Approximately 650 full-time FSA employees in Texas

FSA in Texas – Local Service, Local Impact

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Getting Started with FSA

Determine Your Needs

• Disaster Assistance
• Livestock losses; Property, equipment damage
• Commodity, Price Support
• Protect against market losses
• Conservation Efforts
• Protect endangered wildlife; Reduce erosion
• Farm Loans
• Start new operation
• Expand production, equipment
• Begin specialty/niche operation
• Sustain farming operations

FSA Texas Webpage - www.fsa.usda.gov/tx USDA Service Centers - offices.usda.gov

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

Getting Started with FSA

What to Bring to Your FSA Office

• Proof of Identity
• Valid driver’s license, passport, other personal identification
• Social Security card or IRS paperwork that verifies an Employer

Identification Number

• Original documents required
• Proof of farm/ranch ownership (if recording ownership)
• Copy of recorded deed
• Lease agreement (if identifying lease)
• Entity Identification Status (if recording entity)
• Articles of incorporation
• Trust & estate documents
• Partnership agreement

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• FSA’s electronic news service delivers

important state and local program information instantly

• State Newsletters, County News Bulletins, Time-

Sensitive local text messages

• Subscribe at your local Service Center
• Subscribe online at www.fsa.usda.gov/tx on Main

Page

• SMS Alerts: Important, time-sensitive text

messages from your local FSA office

• Text TX and your county name (no spaces) to FSANOW

(372669)

• Example:

Recipient = FSANOW (372-669) Message = TXBee

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Disaster Assistance – News

• Extra Time, Procedures Granted to Document

and Claim Disaster Losses

• Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced special

procedures to assist producers who lost crops or livestock or had other damage to their farms or ranches as a result of hurricanes Harvey and Irma

• USDA will provide additional flexibility to assist farm loan

borrowers

• FSA authorized emergency procedures on case-by-case basis

to assist impacted borrowers, livestock owners, contract growers, others

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Disaster Assistance – News

• Some program requirements have been temporarily

adjusted for Producers affected by Hurricane Harvey

• Financially stressed FSA farm loan borrowers affected by the

hurricanes who have received primary loan servicing applications may be eligible for 60 day extensions

• Deadlines to file loss for Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) and

Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees and Farm-Raised Fish (ELAP) extended to 60 days

• Special provisions provided for “acceptable proof of livestock death

and inventory for livestock losses”

• A complete listing of all special farm program provisions is posted at

https://go.usa.gov/xRe8p

• Contact your local County FSA Office for specific

information related to your operation

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FSA - General Application Requirements

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• Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) Certification
• Highly Erodible and Wetland certification

Livestock Disaster Programs

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• Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP)
• Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)
• Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey

Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish (ELAP)

• Payment limitation of $125,000 per year

Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

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Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

• Provides benefits to livestock producers for

livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality caused by adverse weather

• Payments are equal to 75 percent of the

average fair market value of the livestock

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Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

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• Beef Cattle
• Dairy Cattle
• Beefalo
• Bison
• Goats
• Horses
• Poultry
• Sheep
• Swine
• Other livestock as determined by Sec. of Agriculture
• Eligible Livestock

Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

• Eligible Livestock Producers
• Eligible owners must legally own the eligible livestock on the

day the loss occurred

• Eligible contract growers must be in possession of the eligible

livestock a the time of the loss and have a written agreement with the eligible livestock owner setting the specific terms regarding the production of the livestock.

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Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

• Eligibility Requirements
• Livestock must have died in excess of normal mortality as

direct result of eligible loss condition that occurred no later than 60 calendar days from ending date of applicable adverse weather event

• Livestock must have been maintained for commercial use as

part of a farming operation on the day they died

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Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

• Eligibility Requirements
• Livestock must not have been produced for reasons other than

commercial use as part of farming operation

• Excluded livestock includes wild free-roaming animals, pets or

animals used for recreation purposes such as hunting, roping,

• r show

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Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

• Application Requirements
• Participant must provide Notice of Loss within 30 calendar days
• f when loss of livestock is apparent to producer
• Complete application for payment and provide required

supporting documentation for loss no later than 90 calendar days after end of calendar year in which eligible loss condition

• ccurred

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Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

• Death Loss Supporting Documentation
• Beginning and ending inventories for type/kind and

weight range of livestock

• Type of adverse weather
• Proof of Death

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Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

• Death Loss Supporting Documentation (Cont’d)
• Type of documentation:
• Photographs/video to document loss, date if possible
• Purchase records, veterinarian records, production

records, bank or other loan documents

• Written contracts, records assembled for tax purposes,

private insurance documents

• Other similar reliable documents
• Adequate proof that eligible livestock deaths occurred as

direct result of eligible adverse weather event

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Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

• How to Apply for 2017 LIP
• File a Notice of Loss within 30 calendar days of when loss of

livestock is apparent to producer

• Application Deadline is March 31, 2018 for 2017 losses
• Call your County FSA Office for appointment

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Livestock Disaster Assistance Programs

• Livestock Indemnity Program
• Application

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Livestock Disaster Assistance Programs

• Livestock Indemnity Program
• Application

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Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish (ELAP)

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Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish (ELAP)

• Provides emergency assistance to eligible producers of

livestock, honeybees and farm-raised fish for losses due to disease (including cattle tick fever), adverse weather, or other conditions, such as blizzards and wildfires, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, not covered by LFP and LIP.

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Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish (ELAP)

• Covered Losses:
• Livestock Feed Losses
• Livestock Grazing Losses
• Honeybee Colony Losses
• Honeybee Hives Losses
• Honeybee Feed Losses
• Bait and Game Fish Losses
• Aquatic Species Feed Losses

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Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish (ELAP)

• Application Requirements – for 2017 Losses
• Must provide Notice of Loss within 30 calendar days of when

loss of livestock is apparent to producer

• Complete application for payment and provide required

supporting documentation for loss no later than November 1, 2017

• Call your local County FSA Office for appointment

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Noninsured Crops Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)

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Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)

• Available for crops not covered by RMA
• Financial assistance to producers of non-insurable

crops impacted by natural disaster resulting in lower yields, crop losses, or prevents crop planting

• NAP Coverage must be purchased by crop application

closing date

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Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)

• Basic coverage
• 50% yield at 55% price
• Service Fees
• $250 per crop, or
• $750 per person per administrative county, or
• $1,875 for producer farming in multiple counties
• May also elect buy-up protection for individual crop at

50%, 55%, 60%, 65% of yield at 100% of price

• Buy-up coverage requires NAP service fee plus a

premium which equals 5.25% of liability

• Grazed crops are not eligible for buy-up

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Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)

• Eligible Causes of Loss Include:
• Drought
• Excessive Wind/Tornado/Hurricane
• Freeze
• Hail
• Flood/Excessive Moisture
• Earthquake
• Conditions related to damaging weather or adverse natural
• ccurrence; disease, insect infestation, heat, sufficient chill

hours

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Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)

• After purchase, Producer must:
• Timely report/certify crop acreage
• File Notice of Loss
• Turn in crop production
• File Application for Payment

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Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)

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Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)

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Tree Assistance Program (TAP)

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Tree Assistance Program (TAP)

• Assistance for eligible orchardist, nursery tree growers

to replant or rehabilitate trees, bushes, vines lost as result of eligible natural disaster

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Tree Assistance Program (TAP)

• Eligibility Conditions
• Mortality above and below ground as result of eligible natural

disaster event

• Stand must have sustained mortality loss in excess of 18% after

adjusted for normal mortality

• Damaged trees, bushes, vines no longer commercially viable;

may be considered “dead” in determining mortality threshold

• Applicants who suffer eligible tree, bush, vine loss must

provide application and supporting documentation to FSA within 90 calendar days of each disaster event or date when loss is apparent to producer

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Tree Assistance Program (TAP)

• Eligible producers may be reimbursed for cost of

replanting/rehabilitating trees damaged in excess of 18% mortality as follows:

• Replanting and cost of seedlings or cuttings for tree, bush, vine

replacement; the lesser of either:

• 65% of actual total cost of practice
• Total calculated using rates established by DAFP for practice
• Cost of pruning, removal, other costs incurred for salvaging

existing trees, bushes, vines; in case of mortality, to prepare land to replant trees, bushes, vines, the lesser of:

• 50% of actual cost of practice
• Total calculated using rates established by DAFP for practice

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Tree Assistance Program (TAP)

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Tree Assistance Program (TAP)

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Tree Assistance Program (TAP)

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Tree Assistance Program (TAP)

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Tree Assistance Program (TAP)

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Emergency Grazing of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)

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Emergency Grazing of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)

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• Emergency grazing limited to livestock producers who

suffered pasture losses due to Hurricane Harvey

• Beginning September 13, 2017, livestock owned by an

eligible producers affected by Hurricane Harvey may graze eligible CRP land for period of 60 days

Emergency Grazing of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)

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• To ensure emergency grazing is only utilized by

producers whose grazing land was adversely impacted by Hurricane Harvey, eligibility may be determined by either a CCC-576 or written self certification

• CRP acreage eligible for emergency grazing includes

practices CP1, CP2, CP4B, CP4D, CP10, CP18B, CP18C, and CP38 if included in the approved SAFE proposal

Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

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Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

• Provides emergency funding and technical

assistance to farmers and ranchers to rehabilitate farmland damaged by natural disasters

• ECP participants may receive cost-share

assistance of up to 75% of cost to implement approved emergency conservation practices

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

• ECP – Eligibility
• To rehabilitate farmland, ECP participants

implement emergency conservation practices:

• Debris removal from farmland
• Grading, shaping or leveling land
• Restoring livestock fences
• Restoring Conservation structures

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

• ECP – Eligibility Requirements
• Items eligible for cost-share assistance include

cost to rehabilitate or replace damaged land or structures:

• New or used materials
• Services
• Labor
• Sales tax

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Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

• ECP – Eligible Land
• Eligible land must be physically located in county or

portion of county approved for ECP

• For land to be eligible, natural disaster must create

new conservation problems that, if untreated, would:

• Impair or endanger land
• Materially affect land’s productive capacity
• Represent unusual damage not type likely to recur

frequently in same area

• Be so costly to repair that federal assistance required

to return land to productive agricultural use

• Conservation problems existing before the applicable

disaster event are ineligible for ECP assistance

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Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

• ECP – Eligible Restoration Cost Considerations
• The minimum performance necessary to resolve

problems that are corrected by ECP practice must meets current NRCS standards and specifications

• Payments limited to restoring structures and other

installations to current NRCS technical standards and specifications

• ECP participants must pay additional cost incurred

to improve land and structures beyond minimum NRCS technical standards and specifications

• No relief authorized for conservation problems

existing before a disaster event occurs

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Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

• Site Inspection/Damage Documentation
• Document Damage with:
• Maps
• Dated/time-stamped photographs
• GPS coordinates
• Description of magnitude of damaged or destroyed

fencing, conservation structures, farmland

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Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

• ECP – Application
• Cost-share assistance limited to $200,000 per

person or legal entity per disaster

• Minimum qualifying cost of restoration is $1,000

per participant or $250 for producers certifying as limited resource

• Relief for starting a practice before filing an

application may be granted on case-by-case basis; Example includes restoring fences to contain livestock

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

• ECP – Application (Cont’d)
• The following counties are approved to implement ECP:
• Aransas

Chambers Grimes Lavaca Polk Waller Austin Colorado Hardin Lee Refugio Washington Bastrop DeWitt Harris Liberty Sabine Wharton Bee Fayette Jefferson Matagorda San Jacinto Brazoria Fort Bend Jasper Montgomery San Patricio Brazos Galveston Jefferson Newton Tyler Burleson Goliad Karnes Nueces Victoria Calhoun Gonzales Kleberg Orange Walker

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Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

• ECP – Application (Cont’d)
• Producers should inquire with local FSA county office

regarding ECP enrollment periods; Signup period shall be at least 30 calendar days, but no more than 60 calendar days, from date ECP is implemented

• FSA county office will accept a producer’s request at

anytime, but request does not guarantee approval or eligibility

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FSA Seed Cotton Loans

Seed cotton loans are farm-stored recourse loans made on cotton before it is ginned

• Seed cotton loans are available for Upland or ELS

cotton through March 31

• All seed cotton loans mature no later than May 31
• If the cotton is sold, producer must repay principal

plus interest and charges immediately

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

FSA Seed Cotton Loans

• Not eligible to be forfeited or repaid with commodity

certificates

• Cotton modules serve as collateral
• Loan rate is base loan rate for upland cotton
• 49.49 cents per pound

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

FSA Seed Cotton Loans

Seed cotton loans are repaid at principal plus interest with either:

• Proceeds of ginned-cotton placed into loan
• r
• Cash redemption by producer before module is

ginned

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

FSA Seed Cotton Loans

• Seed cotton must be insured at full loan value

against loss, damage by fire

• Eligibility is same for regular Marketing

Assistance Loans

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FSA Seed Cotton Loans

• Producers must provide the following when

requesting seed cotton loan:

• Farm number where cotton was produced
• Module numbers
• Location where modules are stored
• Producer should indicate:
• He/she is member of CMA or works with LSA

and

• If Baled cotton is intended for Marketing

Assistance Loan

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Emergency Loans

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Emergency Loans

• Provides financial assistance to family farmers

who suffer qualifying production and/or physical losses as result of disaster

• Maximum amount is $500,000 – up to 100% of

actual production or physical losses

• Interest Rate is 3.75%

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

Emergency Loans

• How to Qualify
• Farm operation is in county declared disaster by

President or Secretary of Agriculture

• Suffered at least 30% loss in crop production or

experienced physical loss to livestock, equipment,

• r real estate

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Emergency Loans

• May be used to:
• Restore or replace essential property
• Pay essential family living and farm operating

expenses

• Refinance farm-related debts other than real estate

to improve farm profitability

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Emergency Loans

• Calculating Loss
• Amount of loan based on amount of loss suffered
• Applicant will use Agency Form FSA-2309 to report

all yields, acreage information, physical losses to FSA

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Emergency Loans

• Repayment Terms
• Annual Operating Loans must be repaid within 12

months

• Loans for production or physical losses may not

exceed 7 years

• Term may be extended up to 20 years to improve

repayment ability if real estate security is available

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Emergency Loans

• Collateral
• All Emergency Loans must be fully secured
• Applicants will provide additional security, if

available, up to 150% of loan amount

• A lien must be taken on all non-essential assets

worth $5,000 or more, if asset cannot be sold to reduce loan amount

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Emergency Loans

• Collateral (Cont’d)
• For real estate loans, must be secured by real estate

being purchased, repaired, replaced, improved

• For chattel and production losses, must be secured

by chattel being purchased, repaired, replaced, refinanced, or produced

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Emergency Loans

• Eligibility Summary
• Unable to obtain sufficient commercial financing
• No previous Direct or Guaranteed Loan resulting in

loss to agency

• No delinquency on any Federal Debt
• Must agree to repay any duplicative Federal

assistance to agency providing assistance (assignments will be taken on disaster programs)

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Emergency Loans

• Eligibility Summary (Cont’d)
• Presidential Disaster Declaration M4332 covers

damages and losses caused by Hurricane Harvey

• ccurring August 23, 2017, and continuing
• Timely Loan Application:
• Presidential Disaster Declaration M4332
• 9 Amendments to M4332 (as of September 30, 2017)
• Filing deadline varies; different for each Amendment
• Original M4332 = April 25, 2018
• M4332, Amendment 9 = May 21, 2018
• Meet with Local FSA staff for applicable deadlines

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FSA Farm Loan Programs

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FSA Farm Loan Programs

In addition to Emergency Farm Loan authority, FSA can:

• Make Direct Farm Loans
• Issue Farm Loan Guarantees to participating

Commercial Lenders

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FSA Farm Loan Types

• Direct Loan Program
• Funded by FSA; Congressional appropriations
• Direct Operating Loans
• Direct Farm Ownership Loans
• Microloans
• Emergency Loans
• Youth Loans
• Guaranteed Loan Program
• From USDA-approved commercial lenders
• Farm Operating Loans
• Line of Credit
• Farm Ownership
• Conservation Loans
• Land Contract Guarantee

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

FSA Farm Loan Programs

Designed to help eligible family farmers, ranchers start, expand, change operation

• All loan programs considered temporary source of credit
• Borrower expected to return to conventional credit

sources

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

Farm Service Agency For More Information Contact: www.fsa.usda.gov