Loan Policies and Operations; Funding and Fiscal Affairs, Loan Policies and Operations, and Funding Operations; OFI Lending

Résumé

The Farm Credit Administration (FCA, agency, or we) adopts a final rule that amends regulations governing other financing institutions (OFIs). The purpose of the final rule is to make it easier for OFIs to obtain funding for short- and intermediate-term loans to farmers, ranchers, aquatic producers, farm-related businesses, and rural homeowners through Farm Credit System (FCS, Farm Credit, or System) banks. The FCA believes that these changes will make credit to agriculture and other eligible borrowers in rural America more affordable. The final rule removes unnecessary provisions in the existing OFI regulations that: Impede the flow of credit; or do not enhance safe and sound operations. The FCA also adopts conforming amendments to its capital regulations.