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AdvertisementUSDA designates 10 counties in South Dakota as primary natural disaster areasSouth Dakota The U.S. Department of Agriculture designated 10 counties in South Dakota as primary natural disaster areas because of losses caused by the combined effects of severe storms with hail, high winds, flooding and grasshopper infestations, which occurred during the period of Jan. 1, and continuing. The 10 counties designated are Aurora, Brown, Custer, Fall River, Gregory, Hutchinson, Jackson, Marshall, Mellette and Yankton. "President Obama and I understand these conditions caused severe damage to the area and serious harm to the farms in South Dakota and we want to help," said Secretary Tom Vilsack. "This action will provide help to hundreds of farmers who suffered significant production losses to forage and pasture, corn, oats, sorghum, soybeans, sunflowers and wheat." Farm operators in the counties listed below in South Dakota also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous. Those counties are: Bennett, Davison, Haakon, McCook, Shannon, Bon, Homme, Day, Hanson, McPherson, Spink, Brule, Douglas, Jerauld, Pennington, Todd, Charles, Mix, Edmunds, Jones, Roberts, Tripp, Clay, Faulk, Lyman, Sanborn, and Turner. Farm operators in the counties listed below in the adjacent states of Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyoming also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous. Nebraska: Boyd, Cedar, Dawes, Keya, Paha, Knox, and Sioux. North Dakota: Dickey, Richland, and Sargent. Wyoming: Niobrara and Weston. All counties listed above were designated natural disaster areas Oct. 13, 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. Advertisement
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