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Show FSA Group LoansAid Loans LoansAid Aid Sma Small ) FarmsCosts Farms - - I ' Costs of heavy hea.y heay heasy . farm machinery machineryand machineryand machineryand and oti oU er equipment needed for ef of Ii Iifiolent indent fiolent ficient operation have been cut as asmuch asmuch much as 7 7o 7a ; , per cent bylestern by \lestern lestern western lesternsmall westernsmall \ westernsmall I small farmers taking tab.1ng tab1ng . part In the theI theFarm theFarm I ' Farm arm Secun Security ty admlnistra administrations administrations'group administrationsgroup ticn s 'group group ' group loin lo\n lo n loan ' \ program Itas it \ was \\as as lamed 1 arned arnedlesterdav : . j { 3esterdav esterdav from David Evans FSA FSA'aspeivisor FSAsipenisor slpenlsor 'aspeivisor aspeivisor ' for San Juan and Gland Grand Grandcounties Glandcounties GlandcountiesR"r counties countiesI countiesMr I\ I \ R"r Rr Ir Mr " r Evns EVill1S Evans ? said that money lent lentby lentby lentby by this community and ccope CC10pe coope atlve ative atlveservice ativeservice atlveservice service program enables groups of offrom offrom offrom from two t\.o t.o t .o o \ . o 0 10 or more low 101'1 1011 ion ' Income Incomefarmers incomefarmers Incomefarmers farmers to pUlcr puicl'i'e puiclie purchase ' , ' < e trictors tr\ctors tr ctors tractors ' \ trac tree tractor treetor tractor tor equipment combines ensilageI ensilagecutters ensilage I | cutters puicbied pm.bled pmbled puitbred . sires and 'l1any l1any many 'l1anyother manyether ' * nanyether other ether senlces services sen ices Each service or ormachine ormachine ormachine machine is ownednd owned ' \ ind \nd nd and operated operatedlomUy operatedjointly operatedjointly cooperatt lomUy jointly by members of the cooperat cooperating ling cooperatling t ing gt gm : gioup oup for their common benefitAccording benefitAccording benefit benefitAccording According to the Farm Farmn SecurJty Security SecurJtyslopel Securityst SecuritySLpemscr slopel st pert \ Isor iser a , rapid e excansion e'tcanSlon etcanSlon ' ccansron of this thisprogram thisprogram I program in 1ll Utih Ut'lh Utlh Utah ' California Calforms ! AIl Aui AIlzona Auizoua Ailzona zona zoua and Nevada shovs shoes sho\l sho l \ s that farm farmlers farmers farmers ers in the lower 10\ler 10 ler \ income ' brackets bracketsrealIze bracketsrealize bracketsrealize lers realIze they mu t pool their Efforts EffortsI Effortsand effortsland iffortsland I land and resources in order to competp compete competesuccessfully competei I I successfully successfuly ! \ with Ith lal laige large ge scale farms farmsf farmslhleh farms1vvhieh farmswhich 1vvhieh \lhleh lhleh \ are lieavily heavIly mecl anized alllzed amzed and andI andw andwell f \I I w \ ell financedOnly financedOnly financed financedOnly I pareI Only In thisay this \ way \\ay ay can the they ) pare paredown paredown paredown andI I down crippling cnppllng outlays of captal capital captaland capitaland capitaland and overhead expense e-pense e pense ' - or 'I I ' avoid ivoldgoing void voidI voidgoing I ' going deeper into debt to buy the theI theI theeqUipment theequipment the.equipment theequipment I . eqUipment they must have to suc sue sucI succeed suereed sueceed I ( ceed reed he declared "When When 'W'1en W1en ' " a 40 acre acrefarmer acrefarmer acrefarmer I farmer buys a 500 acre tnctor tractor he hepass hepas ! ( pas pass } plenty tor Cor for it right rlght at the start startTher startTher startTher Ther he go"s gos goes go " s on paung pa\1ng pa 1ng paving \ overhead overheadfor overheadfor overheadfor for the use he can ne/er ne er neier ne Jer / get out outof outof outof of it on his limited acreage The Thesame Thesame Thesame same goes for the man who buys buysa a $ ? ' ' 00 OO bull to service ervlce a herd of fi\ fi fie five fiveIor fheor \ e I I Ior or ter tet " > cowsIts cows CO\\S CO S cowsIts \ I cowsf farmers farmersget f ' It Its Itsery s \ery ery eery \ ery dlffelent.hen diffeient dlffelent different \ when \.hen .hen . farmers farmersget farmerset get ; together to buy and ise .Ise ase . > that I same efficient tractor or purebred purebredbull purebredbull purebredbull bull sharing sharmg the cost and getting gettingthe gettingthe gettingthe I purebredI the most out of their thelf investment investmentby Investmentby Investmentby by operating at capacityI capacityMr capacityMr capacity capacityMr Mr Evins Ev\ns Ev ns Evans ' \ said that ncirly ne'1.rly ne1.rly ne1rly nearly ' . 1 1000 1000community 1000ccmmunity 000 ccmmunlty community and cooperative senlce senlcegroups sen sere ice icegroups icegroups I groups haie hale base been set upnn up'm upm ' the four fourle'l fourwes fourwes \le'l le'l lel wes \ ' ern states of Region IX Al Almost Almost Almost most 10 10000 000 faimcrs falmerS farmers " " are using themart the I | m'lclmelY mlclmelY mid mart ' inery met y sires and other facllllIes facilries facih faclll facilr lIes [ les ies operated by the these e gioups glOups groups F'um Fum Farm F'umSecUIlty FarmSecurity FirmSecuilty ' SecUIlty Security sune sure surveys es s show that more morethan morethan morethan than 7 7000 000 of the thc co perathe perath peratic e a ser servlceo services scrvices vlceo vices ; exist eXI5t in 111 the Unittd Umtld United States as asn asn I asI n \ whole hole Mem Mcmb Memb b is have obtained obtainedmany obtainedmany obtainedmany many tyres t ) ces of farm machinery maohlnery and andI andservices andservices I servIces for processmi prOCe"51l11 prOCe51l11 processing " ( ? marb.eting marbeting marketing marketingand marketingand . . and li\ li liestock lhestock livestock \ estock Improvement at an anaverage anaverage , a average vert ' ge cost to eich e\ch e ch each ' \ farmer of ot les less lessthan lessthan tban than $35Community $35 35 $35Community $ Community Commumty and cooperative ser servIce service service vIce Icins lo'ins loins leans ' arc are made by FSA only onlyto onlyto onlyto to small fanners fallners farmers unable to get getadeqlate getadequate getadequate adeqlate adequate crcd cred erect t elsewhere However Howevernon Howevernon Howevernon non borlowmg borrowing bon owing far1l1elsho farmeis far1l1els farmers \ who \\ho ho are arefinancially arefinancially financially able may subscribe sub'lcnbe sublcnbe ' thEIr thEIrproportlcnate theirproportionate theirproportionate proportlcnate proportionate share in cash to be become become become come members of a cooperalmg cooperating cooperalmggrOLp cooperatinggroup cooperatinggroup grOLp group if its service is not bemg being bemgu beingu'ed beingu'ed beingued u u'ed ued ' ed to capacity by borrowIng borrowIngmembers borrowingmembers borrowingmembers borrowingmembersAccording members membersAccordmg membersAccording According Accordmg to Mr Evans there are arenow arenow arenow now 18 farmers In Grand county countywho countywho countywho who have individual indl\1ldual indl 1ldual \ lehabllltatlon rehabilitation lehabllltatlonleans rehabilitationleans lehabilitationloans leans from FSA and three who whohale whohave whohave hale have received group loans The Theco Theco Theco co op plan is Intended to supple supplement supplemint supplement ment mint and round out the FfaA FbA rural ruralrehablhtatlOn ruralrehabilitation ruralrehabilitation rehablhtatlOn rehabilitation piogram plogram program - - - |