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The origins of the FSA start with several earlier agencies starting in the 1930s, with several programs and agencies developed during the Great Depression.The Resettlement Administration of 1935 was an early attempt to relocate entire farming communities to more profitable locations, but this was ultimately abandoned as it proved too controversial, expensive, and showed no signs of success. [3]
The Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) was a U.S. government agency established in August 1946 to replace the Farm Security Administration. It superseded the Resettlement Administration during the Great Depression and operated until 2006. FmHA mission and programs involved extending credit for agriculture and rural development.
Environmental Science Services Administration Formed 1965. Abolished 1970. Components merged with those of other agencies to form the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Farmers Home Administration Replaced in 1994 with the Farm Service Agency. Farm Security Administration (FSA) Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or Fannie ...
The Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) was an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture. It administered programs concerning farm products and agricultural conservation. It granted loans to farmers; purchased farm products from farmers and processors; administered land allotment and marketing quota programs ...
By 2001, while still the owner and president of his Mid America Ag Network, Steckline, with his son Greg, were operating their 2,500-acre farm and ranch, "The Ponderosa," outside Garden Plain, Kansas, near Wichita. [15] In early 2002, Steckline interviewed Kansas Attorney General Carla Stovall, then a Republican candidate for Governor, who had ...
It is located east of K-7 and south of State Avenue (US-24, near 126th Street) next to the Sandstone Amphitheater and Kansas City Renaissance Festival. It is north of the Kansas Turnpike "Bonner Springs" exit, and about one mile (1.6 km) west of the Kansas Speedway.
Snow and ice left roads a slippery, dangerous mess across parts of the Midwest Sunday including Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky as a winter storm roared east. As one Kansas state ...
The Rise of the Wheat State: A History of Kansas Agriculture, 1861- 1986 (1987) 16 topical essays by experts. online; Hurt, R. Douglas. "The Agricultural and Rural History of Kansas." Kansas History 2004 27(3): 194–217. ISSN 0149-9114 Fulltext: in Ebsco; Larson, Henrietta M. The wheat market and the farmer in Minnesota, 1858–1900 (1926 ...