USDA Designates 16 Counties in New Mexico as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

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USDA Designates 16 Counties in New Mexico as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

07/13/2011 02:29 PM EDT

Release 0076.11

USDA Designates 16 Counties in New Mexico as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13, 2011 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 16 counties in New Mexico as primary natural disaster areas due to drought that began Jan. 1, 2011, and continues.

The counties are:

Bernalillo	Harding	Rio Arriba	Taos
Cibola	Lincoln	San Miguel	Torrance
Colfax	McKinley	Sandoval	Union
Guadalupe	Mora	Santa Fe	Valencia

“President Obama and I are committed to reducing the impact of this disaster for New Mexico producers,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “This designation will provide help to hundreds of New Mexico farmers and ranchers who suffered significant losses to small grains, pasture and forage crops.”

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

Catron	Los Alamos	Quay	Sierra
Chaves	Otero	San Juan	Socorro
De Baca

Farmers and ranchers in the following counties in Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous:

Arizona
Apache

Colorado
Archuleta, Baca, Conejos, Costilla and Las Animas

Oklahoma
Cimarron

Texas
Dallam and Hartley

All counties listed above were designated natural disaster areas July 8, 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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