Category: Renewable Energy Financing
Funds can be used for acquisitions, construction, modernization, conversion, expansion, repair, equipment, machinery, supplies, start-up costs and working capital; processing and marketing; leasehold improvements, cooperative stock, take out of interim financing, energy projects, and pollution control and abatement.
To help producers who own or operate located in a county declared by the President or designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as a primary disaster area or quarantine area. The maximum loan amount for an Emergency loan is $500,000.
Operating loans of up to $5,000 to eligible individual rural youths age 10 through 20. The project must be of modest size, educational, and initiated, developed and carried out by rural youths participating in 4-H clubs, FFA or a similar organization.
An SDA group is a group whose members have been subject to racial, ethnic or gender prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their individual qualities. These groups consist of American Indians or Alaskan Natives, Asians, Blacks or African Americans, Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders, Hispanics and women.
Targets beginning farmers and ranchers purchasing a farm or ranch; or retiring farmers that are transferring their land to a future generation of farmers and ranchers. Farm Service Agency finances 45% (up to $225,000) of the purchase price and/or the appraised value.
