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- About banks & associations
- The cooperative way
- FCS directory and map
- Mergers, name changes, and other corporate activity
- Major financial indicators
- Young, beginning, and small farmer lending
- Borrower rights and how to file a complaint
- Criminal referrals

Young, beginning, and small farmer lending (en Español) The Farm Credit System is required to serve the credit needs of young, beginning, and small (YBS) farmers and ranchers. The future of agriculture depends on the financial success of young and beginning producers, and the diversity of the agricultural products we enjoy depends in part on the financial success of small producers. Each FCS bank is required (by section 4.19 [Word] of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended, and section 614.4165 of the FCA regulations [Word]) to direct each association board to have a program for furnishing sound and constructive credit and related services to borrowers in each of the three YBS categories. In addition, each institution is required to report to FCA yearly on operations and achievements under its YBS program and to disclose YBS data in its own annual report. For YBS lending data for a specific institution or district or for the Farm Credit System as a whole, see FCS reports for 2022. In March 2022, the agency co-hosted with Colorado State University a National Forum on Serving Young, Beginning, and Small Farmers and Ranchers. YBS reports by FCA FCA, in turn, is required to report to Congress about the System's service to YBS borrowers. Using data that System institutions provide us in their annual reports, as well as information our employees glean during institution examinations, we compile an annual YBS report, which we include in the agency's annual report on the Farm Credit System. The 2022 annual YBS report begins on page 29 of the 2022 Annual Report of the Farm Credit Administration (PDF). See the August 2023 PowerPoint presentation (PDF) at the FCA board meeting. For summary information, see the news release (PDF). For further information about FCA's efforts to strengthen service to YBS producers, see FCA Board Chairman Glen Smith's statement (PDF) at the August 2021 board meeting. The statement is also available in video. YBS guidance
								Providing sound and constructive credit to YBS farmers, ranchers, and producers or harvesters of aquatic products (PDF) (Bookletter 040 revised)

Providing credit to farmers and ranchers operating in local/regional food systems (Word) (Bookletter 066)

Exam manual guidance for mission compliance (PDF)

YBS call report guidance

Current year YBS FAQs and reporting instructions (PDF) YBS info from other agencies
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