Help Local Farmers: Farm Credit Administration Seeks Comments
Is supporting your local farmers by visiting your farmers market, CSA, food coop, or other local food source important to you? Then Please Help. The Farm Credit [...]
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Setting Up Farmer Microloans: Report from The Carrot Project
The following is a Report from The Carrot Project on Setting Up Farmer Microloans. To see more information like this go to: https://www.thecarrotproject.org/programs/reports [...]
How Farm Loan Decisions are Made
Ever wonder how federal farm loan decisions are made? The following article tells the story. Caveat: this article is not meant as an indictment of the FSA, any specific FSA [...]
Farmland Investment by Wall Street Drives Prices
Land Investors Crowd the Waiting Room, by Marcia Zarley Taylor (DTN Progressive Farmer) [...]
USDA Rural Home Loans: Overview and Changes to Know About
About two years ago, USDA loans got a hand up in a stimulus plan and some stricter appraisal terms. But last year the program flirted with insolvency. Now it seems things are back on track, and USDA loans continue to abet families in need of more adequate housing. [...]
Budget Deal: Conservation Slashed, Commodities Untouched
Press Release from U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Summary: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Fiscal 2011 Continuing [...]
National Movement: Young People Transforming Food System
Are you between the ages of 18-29? Have food or farming impacted your life? Are you active in your community? Do you want to be part of a national movement of young people [...]
USDA Announces Commodity Credit Corporation Lending Rates for April 2011
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) today announced interest rates for April 2011. The CCC borrowing rate-based charge for April [...]
Policy Updates from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
Farm Bill Debate Starts with 2011 Funding Bill – While most commentaries on the 2012 Farm Bill treat it, quite logically, as a coming attraction, in many key respects [...]
Website Tells Stories from New Generation of Montana Farmers
Rooted tells the stories of a new generation of farmers and ranchers in Montana through still photography and written profiles. Beautiful photos and grower profiles [...]
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