USDA’s Farm Service Agency has rolled out a new direct loan application that will require less than half the paperwork. The new application will drop from the original 29 pages to 13. Producers will ...

Morale was already reportedly low at USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices well before government workers were furloughed in late December. Now, after a 35-day U.S. government shutdown, the longest ...

LA GRANDE — Farm Service Agency is offering direct farm ownership and direct farm operating loans to producers who want to establish, maintain or strengthen their farm or ranch. Direct loans are ...

Dec. 21—The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has launched an online application for Direct Loan customers. More than 26,000 customers who submit a Direct Loan application each year can now use an ...

SPRING VALLEY, Minn. — Royal Dempewolf was ready to begin planting crops when he learned his approved Farm Service Agency operating loan wouldn’t be funded. The call came on May 7. "That was a long ...

USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) will broaden the use of the Disaster Set-Aside (DSA) loan provision, normally used in the wake of natural disasters, to allow farmers with USDA farm loans who are ...

FARGO, N.D. -- Demand for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency loans in the region is higher than normal and has overtopped the available funds in some categories, although ...

FILE- In this April 5, 2018, file photo sorted soybeans are ready for shipment and planting near White Cloud, Kan. Statistics show the nation's farmers are struggling to pay back their loans after ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The nation's farmers are struggling to pay back loans after years of low crop prices and export markets hit by President Donald Trump's tariffs, with a key government program ...

The farm loan programs of the USDA Farm Service Agency had an economic impact of $87.6 million on family farmers throughout the state in 2009. This represents a total of 602 loans. The agency approved ...

Frank Urbanick, farm loan manager for USDA’s Farm Service Agency servicing Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Elk, Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mercer and Washington counties, reminded ...

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