Commodity Credit Corporation Releases Lending Rates for September

The USDA Commodity Credit Corporation, which helps stabilize, support and protect farm income and prices, released interest rates for September 2012. The borrowing rate-based charge is 0.125, down from 0.250 in August, while the 1996 and subsequent crop year commodity and marketing assistance loans dispersed during September is 1.125, down from 1.250 last month. Interest rates for Farm Storage Facility Loans and discount rates for the Tobacco Transition Payment Program also are available. Read more.