FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION

Farm Credit Administration.An independent federal agency that regulates and examines the

borrower-owned banks and cooperative associations that make up the federal farm credit system. •

The agency was created in 1929 under the title “Federal Farm Board,” became an agency in the

Department of Agriculture in 1933, and again became independent in 1971. — Abbr. FCA. See

FEDERAL FARM CREDIT SYSTEM . [Cases: United States 53(7). C.J.S. United States §§ 90,

92–93.][Blacks Law 8th]