SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ASSISTANCE FOR QUALIFIED BEGINNING FARMERS OR RANCHERS.

SEC. 1822. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ASSISTANCE FOR QUALIFIED BEGINNING FARMERS OR RANCHERS. It is the sense of Congress that, in carrying out the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture should— (1) establish innovative programs of finance and assistance for land transfer between generations and for establishment of new farm and ranch units; (2) expand the use of the credit sale and land contract method for the sale of suitable property acquired under such Act; and (3) maintain statistics on the number of loans made, insured, or guaranteed, and inventory farmland sold or leased, to qualified beginning farmers or ranchers under such Act.