USDA Designates 11 Counties in Kentucky as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

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USDA Designates 11 Counties in Kentucky as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

06/08/2011 04:59 PM EDT

Release No. 0053.11

USDA Designates 11 Counties in Kentucky as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2011 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 11 counties in Kentucky as primary natural disaster areas due to losses caused by severe storms, excessive rainfall and severe flooding that began April 17 and continues.

The counties are:

Ballard	Hancock	Hopkins	Logan	Ohio
Union	Crittenden	Henderson	Livingston	McLean
Trimble

"President Obama and I understand these conditions caused severe damage to pasture, forage crops, corn and wheat," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "This action will provide help to hundreds of farmers who suffered significant production losses."

Farmers and ranchers in the following counties in Kentucky also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous:

Breckinridge	Carlisle	Daviess	Lyon	Muhlenberg	Todd
Butler	Carroll	Grayson	Marshall	Oldham	Warren
Caldwell	Christian	Henry	McCracken	Simpson	Webster

Farmers and ranchers in the following counties in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Tennessee also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous:

Illinois

Alexander	Hardin	Pope
Gallatin	Massac	Pulaski

Indiana

Clark	Perry	Spencer	Warrick
Jefferson	Posey	Vanderburgh

Missouri
Mississippi

Tennessee
Robertson

All counties listed above were designated natural disaster areas June 4, 2011, making all qualified farm operators in the designated areas eligible for low interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA), 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 also has made other programs available to assist farmers and ranchers, including the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program (SURE), which was approved as part of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008; 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.

FSA news releases are available on FSA's website at http://www.fsa.usda.gov via the "News and Events" link.

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