The Nation - News from April 25, 1985

All but about 5% of the nation’s farmers will get financing to put their crops in----far more than predicted several weeks ago, the Reagan Administration’s top farm lending official said. “There is adequate credit available,” said Agriculture Departmant Undersecretary Frank Naylor, who testified before the Senate Agriculture Committee, In early estimates, farm economists predicted that 145 of farmers would fail to get loans to buy seed, fuel and fertilizer to plant their crops.