USDA Commodity Credit Corporation Releases Lending Rates for January 2010

The USDA Commodity Credit Corporation, which helps stabilize, support and protect farm income and prices, released interest rates for January 2010. The borrowing rate-based charge is 0.375 percent, unchanged from December 2009, while the 1996 and subsequent crop year commodity and marketing assistance loans dispersed in January 2010 is 1.375 percent, also unchanged from December 2009. Interest rates for Farm Storage Facility Loans and discount rates for the Tobacco Transition Payment Program also are available. Learn more.