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Farm Land is a casual farming game where you manage an island farm and purchase expansions with your earnings. Harvest the crops from your land, sell goods to the marketplace, and build a friendly little farming community!How to PlayCultivate cropsPlant seeds, water them, and cut down the finished crop ready for market. You can use the money you earn on the market to expand your island and unlock new ways to make money from your land.
Farm Ownership Loans can be used to purchase or expand a farm or ranch. This loan can help with paying closing costs, constructing or improving buildings on the farm, or to help conserve and protect soil and water resources. Read more.
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Farm Ownership Loans offer up to 100 percent financing and are a valuable resource to help farmers and ranchers purchase or enlarge family farms, improve and expand current operations, increase agricultural productivity, and assist with land tenure to save farmland for future generations. With a maximum loan amount of $600,000 ($300,150 for Beginning Farmer Down Payment), all FSA Direct Farm Ownership Loans are financed and serviced by the Agency through local Farm Loan Officers and Farm Loan Managers. The funding comes from Congressional appropriations as part of the USDA budget.
Also known as a participation loan, joint financing allows FSA to provide more farmers and ranchers with access to capital. FSA lends up to 50 percent of the cost or value of the property being purchased. A commercial lender, a State program, or the seller of the farm or ranch being purchased provides the balance of loan funds, with or without an FSA guarantee.
Available only to eligible beginning farmers and ranchers and/or minority and women applicants, a Down Payment loan is a special type of Direct Farm Ownership loan program that partially finances the purchase of a family size farm or ranch. Beginning farmers do not have to identify themselves as a minority or woman, and minority and women loan applicants do not have to be beginning farmers.
The Down Payment Farm Ownership loan is the only loan program that does not provide 100 percent financing. Down Payment loans require loan applicants to provide a minimum cash down payment of 5 percent of the purchase price of the farm.
As established by the Beginning Farmer definition, loan applicants interested in the Down Payment loan may not own more than 30 percent of the average size farm at the time of the application. The applicant may exceed the 30 percent after the loan is closed. The most current Census of Agriculture data is used in this calculation.
First, the operation must be an eligible farm enterprise. Farm Ownership loan funds cannot be used to finance nonfarm enterprises, such as exotic birds, tropical fish, dogs or horses used for non-farm purposes (racing, pleasure, show and boarding).
The Direct Farm Ownership loan is different from all the other FSA loan offerings because Congress wrote into the law an additional 3 year farm management experience requirement. These 3 years of experience must be within 10 years of the date of loan application.
Regional farmland real estate values vary widely because of differences in general economic conditions, local farm economic conditions, government policy, and local geographic conditions that affect returns to farming. For example, in the Corn Belt, farmland real estate values are nearly twice the national average, while farmland real estate values in the Mountain region are less than half the national average. See the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) website for a map and list of the States in the farm production regions discussed below.
Farmland real estate growth trends also vary by region. For example, between 2019 and 2020, inflation-adjusted farm real estate values fell in the Northern Plains (down 3.1 percent to $2,120) and the Lake States (down 1.6 percent to $4,860). In contrast, farm real estate values appreciated in the Southern Plains (up 1.1 percent to $2,110) and the Mountain States (up 0.9 percent to $1,240). Between 2016 and 2020, farmland values increased the most in the Pacific States (11.3 percent), and fell the most in the Northern Plains (-10.0 percent).
Farmland real estate values vary according to agricultural use. Cropland maintains a premium over pastureland due to mostly higher per-acre returns to crop production. Between 2019 and 2020, U.S. average cropland and pastureland values both fell by 0.8 percent, to $4,100 and $1,400 per acre, respectively.
The difference between cropland and pastureland values also vary by region. Cropland values are higher than pastureland values in every region except for the Southeast. In the Pacific region, cropland was worth four times as much as pastureland in 2020 ($7,240 vs $1,750.) Since 2016, cropland values have risen the most in Pacific States (6.5 percent), while they have fallen the most in the Northern Plains (-11.7 percent). Over the same timeframe, pastureland values have increased the most in the Southern Plains (3.5 percent), and have fallen the most in the Corn Belt (-6.2 percent).
Rental rates measure the value of using land for agricultural production. Between 2019 and 2020, average U.S. cropland rental rates decreased by 1.5 percent to $139. Cropland rental rates increased the most in the Southeast (up 5.4 percent to $94 per acre) and the Delta States (up 2.8 percent to $115 per acre). Cropland rental rates fell the most in the Appalachian States (down 2.7 percent to $101 per acre) and the Northeast (down 1.9 percent to $88 per acre). Since 2016, cropland rental rates have increased the most in the Pacific (17.4 percent), and have fallen the most in the Lake States (-7.8 percent).
Pastureland rental rates have fallen 0.8 percent nationally since 2019. Since 2019, pastureland rental rates increased the most in the Mountain States (up 6.7 percent to $5.70 per acre) and the Appalachian States (up 6 percent to $23.50 per acre). Pasture rental rates fell the most in the Lake States (down 13.4 percent to $27.5 per acre) and the Northeast (down 7.1 percent to $29.50 per acre. Since 2016, pastureland rental rates have increased the most in the Southeast (up 3.2 percent), and have fallen the most in the Lake States (-18.5 percent).
Finding land and money for your business can be tough, but USDA has been helping new producers for decades. As a new farmer or rancher, access to land and access to capital are probably your biggest challenges. Whether you are looking for a small amount of funding to acquire a few basic pieces of equipment, need a larger chunk of money to invest in scaling up your operation, or need financing to acquire land and infrastructure, USDA has a variety of loans and resources that can help you.
Reach out to your local USDA Service Center to see if there is any land for sale or lease through the Transition Incentive Program (TIP). TIP is a Farm Service Agency (FSA) program that offers assistance for land owners and operators to transition expiring Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land to a beginning, veteran, or socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher.
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) makes and guarantees loans to farmers who are unable to obtain financing from commercial lenders. You can use FSA loans to pay normal operating or family living expenses, purchase and develop farmland, implement approved conservation plans, and buy farm structures, seeds, livestock and equipment.
Once you have acquired your land and obtained the necessary funding, you will need to start building your operation by determining the legal structure of your business and obtaining the necessary licenses and permits. Start considering insurance options and making decisions on business management components.
FSA makes direct and guaranteed farm ownership and operating loans to family-size farmers and ranchers who cannot obtain commercial credit from a bank, Farm Credit System institution, or other lender. FSA loans can be used to purchase land, livestock, equipment, feed, seed, and supplies. Loans can also be used to construct buildings or make farm improvements.
USDA, through the Farm Service Agency, provides direct and guaranteed loans to beginning farmers and ranchers who are unable to obtain financing from commercial credit sources. Each fiscal year, the Agency targets a portion of its direct and guaranteed farm ownership (FO) and operating loan (OL) funds to beginning farmers and ranchers.
The FMPP was created through a recent amendment of the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act of 1976. The grants, authorized by the FMPP, are targeted to help improve and expand domestic farmers markets, roadside stands, community-supported agriculture programs and other direct producer-to-consumer market opportunities.
The Farmland Protection Planning Grants Program focuses on helping governments focus on the future of agriculture by creating farmland protection plans. These plans recommend policies and projects to maintain the economic viability of the State's agricultural industry and its supporting land base.
The Farmland is Wakefield, Massachusetts' locally-known, family run supermarket established by Giulio Pellegrini in 1978. Since that time, the entire Pellegrini family has been heavily involved in the business. At any time you could come in and see Giulio's wife, Maria, working in the kitchen or the two sons, Mino and Frank, setting up produce or working behind the deli counter or Cathy behind the register. Originally a produce market with a small Italian deli, The Farmland has expanded to include a full-service bakery, seven aisles of groceries, a catering service, a full line of Italian specialty cold cuts, and a top-of-the-line butcher shop.
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