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Show Stqwrvisor Outlines Plan Farmers Home Administration, Garfield County Supervisor, Glen Tingey, has just returned from an agency training meeting at Norman, Oklahoma to discuss program changes and improvements in managing the U.S. Department of Agriculture's major credit program for farmers and rural America. According to Tingey the FmllA has established a priority system for processing applications for farm operating and ownership loans. "Our number one goal," Tingey said, "is to reach limited-resource, low-income family farmers not now being served including those who may have been rejected previously because they had too few resources to meet the criteria for loans requiring regular interest rates." The priorities now being followed are: Loans to limited resource farmers. Guaranteed loans. Loans to borrowers who are able to obtain participating loans from other lenders. Loans to borrowers unable to obtain participating credit. Last year the FmllA invested one million dollars in Garfield and Kane counties through its various loan and grant programs. The training program, Tingey said, will help the local office improve its outreach program and provide better service to low and moderate income families. |