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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Farm credit"”.
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Merger activities in the Farm Credit System: 2002-2020
The Farm Credit System (FCS or ‘The System’) has been in existence for over a century, fulfilling its mission to serve rural America through consistent stable access to credit and financial products for eligible and creditworthy borrowers. However, the Farm Credit System that existed in 1916 is not …
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Aggregate loan quality assessment in the Farm Credit System
Changes in loan quality affect loan pricing, credit policy, and the capital structure of the Farm Credit System (FCS). Improving the assessment and anticipation of changes in loan quality is a continual challenge. This research shows that loan quality assessment through aggregate credit scoring …
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Empirical Analysis of Farm Credit Risk Under the Structure Model
… applied to agricultural lending using available farm records, which provides a solution to the two major issues in risk assessment for agricultural lending, i.e. lack of long-time loss data and limited information of macroeconomic factors on changes of farm assets.
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Teaching long-term farm credit to classes in vocational agriculture
… 1. To determine the nature and content of farm credit jobs that are needed in a program of instruction for all-day students, adult evening class members, part-time enrollees, and members of the veterans training program. 2. To secure and organize as reference material the technical material …
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Implications of the new capital regulations for farm credit system associations
… standards to the current capital standards on Farm Credit System associations. The current capital standards effective as of January 1, 2017, were implemented to provide a higher level of safety and soundness. “Safety and soundness” refers to the ability to absorb risk and remain solvent. The …
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Development and Evaluation of a Credit Scoring Model for the Farm Credit System
Credit scoring models were developed to identify the credit risk in term and operating loans for the principal purposes of evaluating portfolio quality and monitoring risk at the loan and portfolio levels in the Farm Credit System. Experience based (lender) and statistical (academic) approaches …
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Three essays on patronage refunds and capital structure of farm credit system associations
… the patronage refunds decision in the Farm Credit System (FCS) lending associations, and simulate the capital structure change of a representative association dynamically. Patronage refunds distribution is a unique feature of financial cooperative organization and has important impact …
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Determinants of access to farm credit by emerging farmers of Thulamela Local Municipality, South Africa
This study seeks to determine the costs and benefits associated with the value addition process at Tshivhase/ Mukumbani tea estate, Vhembe District, Limpopo province of South Africa. Tshivhase/ Mukumbani tea estate was under precarious economic conditions and in its endeavour to revamp its …
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Net Income Allocation in Credit Cooperatives: A Stochastic Multiperiod Simulation Analysis of the Farm Credit System
… contested allocation policies of agricultural credit cooperatives. It is hypothesized that the objective of credit cooperatives is affected by the power structure of its participants, which in turn determines what allocation policy is adopted. A stochastic, multi-period simulation approach is …
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Analysis of loan penetration for agricultural lenders in a ten county study area of Virginia
… to the Roanoke Association of the Farm Credit Banks of Baltimore. Alleghany-Bedford-Botetourt-Craig-Franklin-Halifax-Henry-Patrick-Pittsylvania-Roanoke County area of Virginia. This area had a very diversified commodity mix, but the main enterprises included dairy, tobacco, and …
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Multiperiod farm planning to maximize smallholder farm income : a case study of Shinyanga region, Tanzania
This study investigates the problem of low farm income in Shinyanga region, Tanzania. For the past two decades, smallholder farmers of Tanzania have been experiencing low farm earnings from the farming occupation. The problem of low farm income has trapped small holder farmers in a vicious cycle, …
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Competing Risks Models of Farm Service Agency Guaranteed Operating and Farm Ownership Loans
… events of over 19,000 guaranteed operating and farm ownership loans which were provided by the Farm Service Agency (FSA). Loans guaranteed by FSA are made by commercial banks, Farm Credit System (FCS), or other lenders to farmers who have limited ability to obtain loans from normal sources …
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Virginia Farmer Retirement and Transition Planning
This study focuses on determining how Virginia farmers are planning for farm retirement and succession and whether they will be financially prepared for their retirement years. The Virginia farming population is aging, life expectancy is increasing, and Social Security benefits are not a stable …
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Agricultural loan evaluation with discriminant analysis
As each year passes, the farmers' needs for adequate credit adapted to their particular type of businesses, become more evident, The shift in the past half century to a mechanized agriculture has greatly increased farm credit needs. The total real estate assets of farmers have increased from a low …