B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 22, 1972
Average
The average rural family
receiving farm ownership credit
from the Farmers Home Ad
ministration increased its net
worth by 69.8 per cent in the five
years prior to 1971, administrator
James V. Smith reported.
Net income of the average
borrower family moved up 50 per
cent, to $9,610, during the same
half-decade, according to a
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FHA Borrower Boosts Net Worth
survey conducted in cooperation
with USDA’s Statistical
Reporting Service.
A study of 2,117 families
selected scientifically from
among 100,543 farm ownership
borrowers shows an average
growth in net worth from $18,690
in the survey’s beginning year to
$31,740 in the fiscal year, the 1970
crop year
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FHA’s farm ownership loans
are available only to family
farmers unable to obtain credit
from other sources. Loans are
repayable over periods of up to 40
years and may not exceed
$lOO,OOO.
The survey also showed a 55.4
per cent increase in total receipts
for the average borrower, up
from $14,620 in 1965 to $22,720 in
1970. Of this total, farm crop sales
were $18,860 in the survey year,
with the remainder coming
from other sources. Farm
operating expenses totaled
$12,610 and family living costs
another $3,910, most of which was
spent in the local community.
Included in the average
borrower’s total holdings in 1970
were $39,560 in real estate;
$11,680 in livestock; $11,830 in
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Breed for the New Breed” has
recently been developed and is
available free from the Extension
Department at the National
Holstein Association in Brat
tleboro, Vermont or the Holstein
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as to persons writing in and
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machinery and equipment, and
$6,820 in other personal property,
for a total of $69,890. After
deducting average indebtedness
of $38,150, the net worth figure of
$31,740 was reached.
Another measurement of
progress made by the borrowers
is demonstrated by the fact that
during the same five years, 24.3
per cent made substantial im
provement in the calibre of their
homes, moving from either the
dilapidated or deteriorating
category to fully sound housing.
The average borrower was 45
years old in 1970 and had a wife
and two children. The expanding
need for farm ownership credit
was shown by the fact that the
average loan five or more years
earlier was $18,820, but the
average for new borrowers in
1970 was $23,650.
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John J. Hess, 11, Inc.
Ph: 442-4632
Paradise
West Willow
Farmers Assn., Inc.
Ph: 464-3431
West Willow
John B. Kurtz
Ph: 354-9251
R. D. 3, Ephrata
KWK
Michael Martin is hown at
the podium presenting his
prize-winning speech on
‘The Polluting Man” last
week at the Farm and Home
Center. Martin was first place
winner in the annual Lan
caster County Soil and Water
Conservation District public
speaking contest for FFA
members.
James High & Sons
Ph: 354-0301
Gordonville
Wenger's Feed Mill
Inc.
Ph: 367-1195
Rheems
Ira B. Landis
Ph- 4Q4.7Q19
1912 Creek Hill Rd, Lana