Acting as the farm finance agency, the industrial commission may establish the first-time farmer finance program to encourage first-time farmers to enter into and remain in the livelihood of agriculture and to provide first-time farmers a source of financing at favorable rates and terms generally not available to them. The first-time farmer finance program is established to allow first-time farmers to utilize the tax-exempt financing provided for in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and any amended regulations adopted thereunder.