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This bill aims to improve access to farming and ranching for certain underserved groups. The key provisions include: 1. Requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to grant farm numbers to individuals who provide eligible documentation demonstrating control of land, even if they do not hold full legal ownership (e.g., through heir property arrangements). 2. Establishing a pilot program to allow qualified intermediaries like cooperatives and credit unions to make or guarantee farm ownership loans to individuals and entities to help resolve ownership and succession issues on farmland with multiple owners. 3. Directing the Secretary to collect and report data every 5 years on farmland ownership, tenure, transition, and entry for beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, including the impact of non-farming landowners holding land for investment purposes. The overall goal is to improve access to land and credit for underserved farmers and ranchers, and to gather data to better understand the barriers they face.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/3117/all-info