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USDA designates 2 Kan., and 3 Colo. counties as primary natural disaster areas

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WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Kansas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Greeley and Haskell counties who suffered losses due to recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency emergency loans.

This natural disaster designation allows FSA to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation or the refinance of certain debts.

Producers in the contiguous Kansas counties of Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Kearny, Meade, Seward, Stevens, Wallace, and Wichita, as well as Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Prowers counties in Colorado, are also eligible to apply for emergency loans.



The deadline to apply for these emergency loans is Feb. 25, 2021.

Perdue also designated three Colorado counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Elbert, El Paso, and Kit Carson counties who suffered losses due to recent drought, may be eligible for USDA FSA emergency loans.



This natural disaster designation allows FSA to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation or the refinance of certain debts.

Producers in the contiguous Colorado counties of Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Crowley, Douglas, Fremont, Lincoln, Pueblo, Teller, Washington, and Yuma as well as Cheyenne, Sherman, and Wallace counties in Kansas, are also eligible to apply for emergency loans.

The deadline to apply for these emergency loans is Feb. 25, 2021.

FSA will review the loans based on the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability.

FSA has a variety of additional programs to help farmers recover from the impacts of this disaster. FSA programs that do not require a disaster declaration include: Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish Program; Emergency Conservation Program; Livestock Forage Disaster Program; Livestock Indemnity Program; Operating and Farm Ownership Loans; and the Tree Assistance Program.

Farmers may contact their local USDA service center for further information on eligibility requirements and application procedures for these and other programs. Additional information is also available online at farmers.gov/recover.


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