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Farm Service Agency outlines Vermont loan caseload, disaster and dairy support
Summary
At a Jan. 30 Senate Agriculture Committee meeting, Alana Walden of the Farm Service Agency of Vermont reviewed the agency's loan portfolios, recent disaster assistance and specialty-crop marketing aid and answered committee questions about loan forgiveness and program timing.
Alana Walden, deputy state executive director and acting state executive director of the Farm Service Agency of Vermont, told the Senate Agriculture Committee on Jan. 30 that the agency provides price-support, conservation and disaster programs as well as direct and guaranteed lending to Vermont producers.
Walden said the agency operates nine county offices that serve all 14 Vermont counties from the state office in Colchester and currently has 41 permanent employees. She said Vermont’s FSA also has oversight of certain lending activity in Maine.
Walden outlined recent payments and loan caseloads. She said a specialty-crop marketing-assistance program…
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