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Farm Service Agency: Characteristics of Small County Offices

RCED-99-162 Published: May 28, 1999. Publicly Released: Jun 28, 1999.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Farm Service Agency (FSA), focusing on the: (1) number of FSA county offices with three or fewer permanent full-time employees; (2) characteristics of these offices, including their proximity to another county office, their workload, the level of FSA program benefits delivered, the relative contribution of farming to total county income, and the number of farms and farmland acres in the counties served by these offices; and (3) ways in which varying the criteria associated with these characteristics can affect the number of county offices that are candidates for closure and consolidation.

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Agricultural programsComparative analysisFarm income stabilization programsFederal agency reorganizationFederal downsizingReductions in forceStatistical dataAgricultural landFarmingReorganization