USDA designates four Kansas counties as primary natural disaster areas

Decision allows farmers and ranchers to apply for USDA assistance

The U.S. Department of Agriculture designated Allen, Graham, Hodgeman and Rooks counties in Kansas as primary natural disaster areas because of losses caused by excessive rain, flooding, high winds and hail that occurred from March 15, through July 1. Farm operators in the following Kansas counties listed below also qualify for natural disaster benefits because their counties are contiguous.

Anderson, Ford, Ness, Sheridan, Bourbon, Gove, Norton, Smith, Coffey, Gray, Osborne, Trego, Edwards, Linn, Pawnee, Wilson, Ellis, Neosho, Phillips, Woodson and Finney.

All counties listed above were designated natural disaster areas on Sept. 5, making all qualified farm operators in the designated areas eligible for low interest emergency loans from USDA's Farm Service Agency, provided eligibility requirements are met. Farmers in eligible counties have eight months from the date of the declaration to apply for loans to help cover part of their actual losses. FSA will consider each loan application on its own merits, taking into account the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability. FSA has a variety of programs, in addition to the EM loan program, to help eligible farmers recover from adversity.

USDA has also made other programs available to assist farmers and ranchers, including the Emergency Conservation Program, Federal Crop Insurance and the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program. Interested farmers may contact their local USDA Service Centers for further information on eligibility requirements and application procedures for these and other programs. Additional information is also available online at: http://disaster.fsa.usda.gov.

9/15/08
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Date: 9/11/08

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