USDA Microloans for Farmers: Participation Patterns and Effects of Outreach

Sarah Tulman , Nathaniel Higgins , Robert Williams ; Michael Gerling , Charles Dodson , and Bruce McWilliams

United States Department of Agriculture

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;   

RP-ID  :  ERR-222

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: United States Department of Agriculture Publications

【 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.”