Federal Farm Loan Act

Federal Farm Loan Act
Other short titles	Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916
Long title	An Act to provide capital for agricultural development, to create standard forms of investment based upon farm mortgage, to equalize rates of interest upon farm loans, to furnish a market for United States bonds, to create Government depositaries and financial agents for the United States.
Enacted by	the 64th United States Congress
Effective	July 17, 1916
Citations
Public law	64-158
Statutes at Large	39 Stat. 360
Legislative history
	Introduced in the Senate as S. 2986; Passed the Senate on May 4, 1916 (58-5); Reported by the joint conference committee on June 27, 1916; agreed to by the Senate on June 27, 1916 (passed) and by the House on June 27, 1916 (311–12); Signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on July 17, 1916;

The Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 (Pub. L. 64–158, 39 Stat. 360, enacted July 17, 1916) was a United States federal law aimed at increasing credit to rural family farmers.^[1]^[2] It did so by creating a federal farm loan board, twelve regional farm loan banks and tens of farm loan associations. The act was signed into law by President of the United States Woodrow Wilson.

^ Putnam, George E. (1916). "The Federal Farm Loan Act". The American Economic Review. 6 (4): 770–789. ISSN 0002-8282.
^ Buckley, Robert J. (1917). "The Federal Farm-Loan Act". Journal of Political Economy. 25 (2): 129–147. doi:10.1086/252943. ISSN 0022-3808.