USDA FSA Designates 36 Counties As Primary Natural Disaster Areas
Tuesday, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced counties in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma will be available for FSA emergency loans due to losses from drought. Producers in primary disaster areas as well as contiguous disaster areas are eligible for loans.
Loans are made available under the authority of Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Purdue. Producers in any designated primary and contiguous counties have until April 1, 2019 to apply for emergency loans to help cover actual losses. In total, 36 counties have been declared primary disaster areas and another 36 contiguous disaster areas.
Counties eligible for emergency loans:
Iowa Primary Disaster
Davis
Kansas Primary Disaster
Cherokee
Douglas
Franklin
Johnson
Labette
Leavenworth
Miami
Wyandotte
Missouri Primary Disaster
Adair
Andrew
Buchanan
Caldwell
Carroll
Chariton
Clinton
Daviess
DeKalb
Gentry
Grundy
Harrison
Jpward
Linn
Livingston
Macon
Mercer
Nodaway
Putnam
Randolph
Ray
Saline
Schulyer
Scotland
Sullivan
Oklahoma Primary Disaster
Craig
Ottawa
Iowa Contiguous
Appanoose
Jefferson
Monroe
Van Buren
Wapello
Kansas Contiguous
Anderson
Atchison
Coffey
Crawford
Jefferson
Linn
Montgomery
Neosho
Osage
Shawnee
Missouri Contiguous
Andrew
Atchison
Boone
Buchanan
Clay
Cooper
Holt
Howard
Jackson
Knox
Lafayette
Monroe
Pettis
Platte
Putnam
Shelby
Worth
Oklahoma Contiguous
Delaware
Mayes
Nowata
Rogers
FSA considers each loan on its own merits, including extend of losses, security available and repayment ability. There are other programs that could help farmers and ranchers recover losses from disaster.
Other FSA programs that can provide assistance, but do not require a disaster declaration, include: Operating and Farm Ownership Loans; the Emergency Conservation Program; Livestock Forage Disaster Program; Livestock Indemnity Program; Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish Program; and the Tree Assistance Program. Talk to local USDA agents for more information on loans or other programs.
Sonja Begemann
Tue, 08/14/2018 – 11:45
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Drought Monitor updated to July 31, 2018
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Chris Fenimore NCEI/NESDIS/NOAA
Source: Dairy Herd