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Farm Service Agency Public Affairs Staff 1400 Independence Ave SW Stop 0506, Room 3624-South Washington, D.C. 20250-0506
Release No. 1487.08
Kerry Humphrey (202) 720-9733
Decision Allows Farmers and Ranchers to Apply for USDA Assistance
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2008 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture designated 63 counties in Missouri as primary natural disaster areas because of losses caused by excessive moisture and flooding that occurred from March 1, 2008, and continuing. Those counties are:
Adair | Dallas | Marion | Ralls |
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Andrew | Daviess | Mercer | Randolph |
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Atchison | Franklin | Miller | Ray |
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Audrain | Gentry | Mississippi | Saline |
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Bates | Grundy | Moniteau | Schuyler |
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Benton | Harrison | Monroe | Scotland |
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Boone | Hickory | Montgomery | Scott |
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Buchanan | Holt | New Madrid | Shelby |
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Caldwell | Howard | Newton | St. Charles |
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Carroll | Jefferson | Nodaway | St. Louis |
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Chariton | Knox | Pemiscot | Ste. Genevieve |
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Clark | Lewis | Perry | Sullivan |
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Clinton | Lincoln | Pike | Vernon |
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Cole | Linn | Platte | Warren |
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Cooper | Livingston | Polk | Worth |
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Dade | Macon | Putnam | |
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Farm operators in the following Missouri counties and independent city listed below also qualify for natural disaster benefits because their counties are contiguous.
Counties
Barry | Clay | Jasper | Osage |
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Barton | Crawford | Laclede | Pettis |
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Bollinger | De Kalb | Lafayette | Pulaski |
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Callaway | Dunklin | Lawrence | St. Clair |
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Camden | Gasconade | Madison | St. Francois |
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Cape Girardeau | Greene | Maries | Stoddard |
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Cass | Henry | McDonald | Washington |
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Cedar | Jackson | Morgan | Webster |
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St. Louis
Farm operators in the counties listed below in the adjacent states of Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Tennessee also qualify for natural disaster benefits because their counties and city are contiguous.
Mississippi
Adams, Alexander, Calhoun, Hancock, Jackson, Jersey, Madison, Monroe, Pike, Randolph, St. Clair and Union
Appanoose, Davis, Decatur, Fremont, Lee, Page, Ringgold, Taylor, Van Buren and Wayne
Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Doniphan, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and Wyandotte
Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton and Hickman
Nemaha, Otoe and Richardson
Ottawa
Dyer and Lake
All counties and independent city listed above were designated natural disaster areas on Sept. 5, 2008, 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 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.
FSA news releases are available on FSA's Web site at: http://www.fsa.usda.gov via the "News and Events" link.
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