Program Description General Program Requirements Loan Terms Application Process Program Contact Information

Program Description General Program Requirements Loan Terms Application Process Program Contact Information

Program Description General Program Requirements Loan Terms Application Process Program Contact Information

Program Description General Program Requirements Loan Terms Application Process Program Contact Information Managing Agency

The Fisheries Finance Program (FFP) is a direct government loan program that receives an annual loan authority from Congress to provide long-term loans to the aquaculture, mariculture, and commercial fisheries industries. The Program will finance up to 80% of the depreciated actual cost of an eligible project cost. The applicant must have a minimum of a 20% equity contribution to the eligible project. Eligible projects consists of Aquaculture and Mariculture facilities and Fisheries Shoreside Facilities. The FFP can provide both financing and refinancing of existing debt for these projects. The FFP can also provide financing to purchase or refinance an existing fishing vessel and also to reconstruct an existing fishing vessel as long as the reconstruction does not increase harvesting capacity. The FFP cannot provide funds to construct a new fishing vessel, but it can provide funds to refinance existing debt on a newly constructed vessel

The Farm Labor Housing Loan and Grant program provides capital financing for the development of housing for domestic farm laborers. Farm Labor Housing loans and grants are provided to buy, build, improve, or repair housing for farm laborers, including persons whose income in earned in aquaculture (fish and oyster farms) and those engaged in on-farm processing. Funds can be used to purchase a site or a leasehold interest in a site; to construct housing, day care facilities, or community rooms; to pay fees to purchase durable household furnishings; and to pay construction loan interest.

For better understanding of the agricultural loan guarantee is the best to start with an example: if one child get the loan amount reduced, the guarantors will make the same agreement for the full loan amount. Although loan guarantee isn't so cheap so here is where the agricultural financing takes action, by paying a part of the fee to the investiture bank.

The USDA (US Department of Agriculture) funds some mortgage loans, and guarantees others. Apply for these loans at your local lender's office, or go through a mortgage broker, or go directly to a Department of Agriculture Service Center (see link below for locations of these centers.) Your real estate agent will know about these loans. The USDA provides funds for low to moderate income borrowers to purchase rural housing.

If you are considering the purchase of either a farm or a ranch, you know that the cost of purchasing your property can exceed one million dollars. Quite frankly, not that many people are resourceful enough to fund this purchase themselves. Farm and ranch loans are available to you and at a rate that you can afford.