7 CFR § 764.201 - Down payment loan uses.

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title: "7 CFR § 764.201 - Down payment loan uses."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "764.201"
section_name: "Down payment loan uses."
chapter_name: "FARM SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "D"
subchapter_name: "SPECIAL PROGRAMS"
part_number: "764"
part_name: "DIRECT LOAN MAKING"
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last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "5 U.S.C. 301 and 7 U.S.C. 1989."
regulatory_source: "72 FR 63298, Nov. 8, 2007, unless otherwise noted."
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# 764.201 Down payment loan uses.

Down payment loan funds may be used to partially finance the purchase of a family farm by an eligible beginning farmer, socially disadvantaged farmer, or veteran farmer farmer.

[72 FR 63298, Nov. 8, 2007, as amended at 73 FR 74345, Dec. 8, 2008; 86 FR 43392, Aug. 9, 2021; 87 FR 13124, Mar. 9, 2022]