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Senator Roberts announces $3 billion in ag disaster assistance
Kansas U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts announced May 24 that the Supplemental Funding Bill, currently being considered by the Senate, contains $3 billion for agriculture disaster assistance for crop years 2005, 2006 and 2007 in federal disaster areas. Livestock losses from this winter's blizzard are also eligible. Also included in the Supplemental Funding Bill is $40 million in federal disaster relief funds for recovery from the Greensburg tornado and other violent storms that hit Kansas in early May. The funding will be administered through the Department of Agriculture and will be available to Greensburg, Kiowa County and other Kansas counties designated by the president as federal disaster areas. This new aid is on top of the resources already available through FEMA. The new funds are not limited to Greensburg and will be available to other parts of the state affected by the storms. "This is great, overdue news for our farmers and ranchers," Senator Roberts said. "The Senate is set to pass the Supplemental Bill and the president has indicated he will sign it into law. So the score has been settled, Mother Nature zero, Kansas two." Date: 5/31/07
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