USDA Microloans for Farmers: Participation Patterns and Effects of Outreach

[摘要] U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Microloan program, launched in 2013, aims to better serve the credit needs of several types of farmers: small, beginning, veteran, and/or from historically socially disadvantaged groups (women and minorities). ERS researchers investigate the composition of Microloan borrowers and the receipt of these loans by new FSA borrowers.Errata: On January 18, 2017 in the report USDA Microloans for Farmers: Participation Patterns and Effects of Outreach the axis label for the second-to-last category of the figure in the report’s Summary, as well as in Figure 2, was corrected to read “Overlap: beginning farmer and SDA.”

[发布日期] 2016-12-30 [发布机构] United States Department of Agriculture

[学科分类] 农业科学（综合）

[关键词] Farm Service Agency;Microloans;credit programs;Direct Operating Loan;women;minority;beginning farmers and ranchers;veteran;new borrower;outreach;uptake;target group