USDA Designates 23 Missouri Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

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USDA Designates 23 Missouri Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

06/16/2011 04:08 PM EDT

June 16, 2011

Contact:
Dan Gieseke
573-876-0980
daniel.gieseke@mo.usda.gov

USDA Designates 23 Missouri Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

(COLUMBIA, Mo.) – The U. S. Department of Agriculture designated 23 Missouri counties as primary agricultural natural disaster areas making certain farmers and other agricultural producers in the counties eligible for low-interest emergency loans from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), in addition to other disaster programs.

The following counties were designated as primary natural disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by after historic flooding along with excessive rain and high winds occurring from April 1 and continuing. Those counties are: Bollinger, Butler, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Franklin, Gasconade, Hickory, Howell, Laclede, Maries, Mississippi, New Madrid, Oregon, Osage, Pemiscot, Perry, Pulaski, Reynolds, Ripley, Scott, Ste. Genevieve and Stoddard.

Producers in contiguous counties may also be eligible for programs based on this designation. The contiguous counties are: Benton, Callaway, Carter, Cole, Crawford, Dallas, Dent, Douglas, Iron, Jefferson, Madison, Miller, Montgomery, Morgan, Ozark, Phelps, Polk, Shannon, St. Charles, St. Clair, St. Francois, St. Louis, Texas, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Webster and Wright.

All counties listed above were designated natural disaster areas on June 9, 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, 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 (ECP); Federal Crop Insurance; and the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program.

Interested farmers may contact their local county FSA office for further information on eligibility requirements and application procedures for these and other programs or visit www.fsa.usda.gov.

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