7-18-2012 - Pence Supports Addition of 14 Indiana Counties to Primary Drought Disaster List |
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"Crops are suffering due to the drought across Indiana and so are our farmers," said Pence. "I wholeheartedly support efforts to speed much-needed assistance to the heartland and will continue to work to marshal resources to help farmers across Indiana." The following counties were designated as primary disaster counties today, July 18, 2012: Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Monroe, Morgan, Owen, Parke, Putnam and Shelby. Benefits are also available for the contiguous counties of Boone, Decatur, Fountain, Henry, Jennings, Montgomery, Rush, and Vermillion. The USDA encourages all farmers and ranchers to contact their crop insurance companies and local USDA Farm Service Agency Service Centers, as applicable, to report damages to crops or livestock loss. More information about federal crop insurance may be found at www.rma.usda.gov. Farm operators in both primary and contiguous counties are eligible to be considered for Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans. Farmers in eligible counties have eight months from the date of a Secretarial disaster declaration to apply for emergency loan assistance. FSA will consider each emergency loan application on its own merits, taking into account the extent of production losses, security available, and repayment ability. In total, the following counties across Indiana have been declared disaster areas by the federal government in the past week: Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Daviess, Decatur, DeKalb, Delaware, Dubois, Elkhart, Fountain, Fulton, Gibson, Grant, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Harrison, Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Huntington, Jackson, Jasper, Jay, Jennings, Johnson, Knox, Kosciusko, Lagrange, La Porte, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Martin, Miami, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Noble, Orange, Owen, Parke, Perry, Pike, Posey, Pulaski, Putnam, Rush, Shelby, Starke, St. Joseph, Spencer, Steuben, Sullivan, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, Wabash, Warrick, Washington, Wells, White, and Whitley. ### |