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Farm Financing to Start Smart

FreshRoots equips today's newest farmers for a healthy start in their farming careers, helping rural communities and agriculture thrive today and tomorrow.

FreshRoots provides lending assistance and learning incentives to farmers 40 years of age or younger or in their first 10 years of farming.

 

 

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  • Lending Assistance
    FreshRoots lending assistance provides and interest rate reduction for the first five years of each loan.
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  • Lending Incentives
    Up to $2,000 in stipends are available to individual and married-couple borrower-members who attend three learning workshops within two years.
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  • Directors Cup Award
    FCI celebrates young and beginning farmers committed to continuous learning and intentional living for a brighter future for their farm family business and community with the Directors Cup Award.
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