farmers’ home administration
Farmers’ Home Administration. An agency, formerly in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, responsible for making mortgages and insuring loans to farmers and for funding rural public-works projects. • The agency was abolished in 1994, and its functions were assumed by other agencies in the Department. — Abbr. FmHA; FHA. [Cases: United States 53(7). C.J.S. United States §§ 90, 92–93.]