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Farm Storage Facility Loans

Program Information

Popular name

FSFL

Program Number

10.056

Program objective

The Farm Storage Facility Loan (FSFL) Program provides low-interest financing for producers to build, upgrade, or acquire farm storage and handling facilities, storage and handling equipment and trucks. The following commodities are eligible for on-farm storage, drying and handling equipment: corn, grain sorghum, rice, soybeans, oats, peanuts, wheat, barley, or minor oilseeds harvested as whole grain; corn, grain sorghum, wheat, oats or barley harvested as other-than-whole grain; pulse crops (lentils, chickpeas and dry peas); hay; honey; renewable biomass; fruits (includes nuts) and vegetables - cold storage facilities; aquaculture (excluding systems that maintain live animals through uptake and discharge of water); floriculture; hops; milk; rye; meat and poultry (unprocessed); eggs; cheese, butter and yogurt. The loan must be approved by the local FSA state or county committee before any site preparation, construction, and/or acquisition can be started. All loan requests are subject to an environmental evaluation. Accepting delivery of equipment, starting any site preparation, or construction before loan approval, may impede the successful completion of an environmental evaluation and may adversely affect loan eligibility.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2024

    Since 2000, 59,464 FSFLs have been disbursed totaling $4.3 billion and loan terms range from 3 to 12 years. On-farm storage capacity has increased by 1 billion bushels since the inception of the FSFL program.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

(1) A factsheet, press release, forms, and directives are available. Regulations at 7 CFR Part 1436 were published in the Federal Register under a final rule on August 18, 2009, amended on March 10, 2014 and on April 29, 2016.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Anyone/general public
  • Farmer/Rancher/Agriculture Producer
  • Individual/Family
  • Land/Property Owner

Additional resources