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USDA has made substantial, year-over-year gains in expanding credit opportunities for farmers and ranchers across the United States. USDA is seeking comments on a new microloan program to help small and family operations progress through their start-up years with needed resources, while building capacity, increasing equity, and eventually graduating to commercial credit....More

On Wednesday morning, Senate Agriculture Committee leadership was optimistic a farm bill recently passed out of committee will soon hit the Senate floor....More

A quarterly survey of agricultural credit conditions across a three-state region (Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico) by the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank indicates agricultural property values continued to rise for irrigated and non-irrigated land in the first quarter of 2012, some bankers calling the results a positive indication of a strong ag economy in spite of last year’s devastating and far-reaching drought....More

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Bruce Nelson reminds producers that enrollment for the 2012 Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program (DCP) and the Average Crop Revenue Election Program (ACRE) ends June 1.

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