Farm Service Agency Characteristics of Small County Offices

The Farm Service Agency (FSA) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has county offices that administer a variety of commodity, loan, conservation, & emergency disaster assistance programs. Since Dec. 1994, FSA has closed over 370 county offices & reduced its county office staff by about 28%. This report provides information on: the number of FSA county offices with 3 or fewer employees; the characteristics of these offices, including their proximity to another county office, their workload, the level of FSA program benefits delivered, the relative contribution of farming to total county income; & what criteria can affect county offices that will be closed or consolidated.Dishmon, James L., Jr. is the author of 'Farm Service Agency Characteristics of Small County Offices' with ISBN 9780788188114 and ISBN 0788188119.