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Farmers Home Administration  

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  • The Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) was a government agency created after the Great Depression to help rural families reestablish their farms and ranches and become self-sufficient through various financial tools. It also operated lending services for rural farm and nonfarm enterprises, including insurance for loans to meet housing and farm-related needs of rural families. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Housing; Farmers Home Administration (Rural Housing Service)]

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