Farm Credit AdministrationGovernment

The Farm Credit Administration (FCA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for regulating and supervising the institutions that make up the Farm Credit System and Farmer Mac. Its mandate is to ensure these borrower-owned cooperative lenders remain safe, sound, and dependable sources of credit for agriculture and rural America. Established in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 6084, it consolidated disparate federal agricultural credit agencies during the Great Depression. Its modern regulatory authority was later substantially overhauled and expanded by the Farm Credit Act of 1971.