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to serve rural areas of the United States. In the 1930s, the U.S. lagged behind Europe in providing electricity to rural areas. In 1934, less than 11% of

authority is granted by the Farm Credit Act of 1971. The Farm Credit System is considered the first GSE chartered by the United States. The Farm Credit Administration

Federal hydroelectric power, at the lowest possible cost to public bodies and cooperatives in the Southeastern United States. SEPA’s total program budget

of 22 regional cooperatives across the United States and adjacent areas, uniting over 2,000 partners—including federal agencies, states, tribes, and NGOs—to

to accommodate participation from outside the United States. As OCLC expanded services in the United States outside Ohio, it relied on establishing strategic

hunger in the United States and internationally. It is headed by the secretary of agriculture, who reports directly to the president of the United States

was created in 1950 by the Secretary of the Interior to carry out functions assigned to the Secretary by the Flood Control Act of 1944. In 1977, it was

USFWS was the United States Commission on Fish and Fisheries, more commonly referred to as the United States Fish Commission, created in 1871 by the United

communities in the United States and its territories. Because these three agencies are closely aligned, they are commonly referred to as the USDA Rural

- Relating to the Operation and Disposition of Electric Energy at the Denison Dam, the Grand River Dam, and the Norfork Dam, in the States of Texas, Oklahoma

of the United States is contained in the record of the 53rd Congress, chapter 169, Agricultural Appropriations Act of 1896. Milton Whitney was the first

I. In 1919, the office was renamed in Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics. In 1920, the office became a separate USDA agency. In 1922, the Bureau

The United States Fish Commission, formally known as the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, was an agency of the United States government

barriers in the development of energy technologies. Its goal is to “enhance the economic and energy security of the United States through the development

produced at federal dams in 11 states, representing about 40 percent of hydroelectric generation in the western and central United States. WAPA also formerly

traders first arrived in the early 18th century, mostly in pursuit of lucrative furs. The United States acquired the region in the early 19th century, gradually

within the United States Department of Agriculture which runs programs intended to improve the economy and quality of life in rural parts of the United States

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with the Springfield Bank for Cooperatives and the Farm Credit Bank of Springfield, and in 1999 with the merger of St. Paul Bank for Cooperatives. In 2012

established with the discovery of iron in the Vermilion and Mesabi ranges in the 1880s, followed by the Cuyuna Range in the early 1900s. The ore went by rail