Path to the Farm Bill: Expanding Access to Credit
Editor’s Note: This post is the sixth post in a multi-part series exploring some of the key sustainable agriculture and food systems challenges that the farm bill can address. Through a series of posts comparing the House and Senate Agriculture Committees’ proposals, we provide an assessment of how each chamber’s bill would address a given challenge, and our recommended path forward. This post examines access to credit for farmers.
Farming is one of the hardest careers to pursue, in-part due to high startup costs. Access to credit allows farmers to purchase the supplies they need and to get crops in the ground before the fruits of that labor are available. Improvements to Title V of the farm bill are key to secure much-needed capital for farmers, not all of whom are served equally. This post compares the proposals to expand …
