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USDA designates areas of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana Primary Natural Disaster Areas due to drought

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated counties and parishes in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico as primary natural disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by a recent drought. Scroll down to see what counties are affected. Each state has received its own declaration, with contiguous counties also eligible. If you don’t see your county covered but your county borders another state, check that state’s list as well.
Click the following links to go to your state: Texas Oklahoma Louisiana Arkansas
Qualified farm operators in the designated areas eligible for the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA’s) emergency (EM) loans, provided eligibility requirements are met. Farmers in eligible counties and parishes have eight months from the date of the declaration — March 8, 2018 — 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 the impacts of this disaster.
Other FSA programs that can provide assistance, but may not require a disaster declaration, include: Operating and Farm Ownership Loans; the Emergency Conservation Program; Livestock Forage Disaster Program; Livestock Indemnity Program; Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish Program; and the Tree 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.

Texas

Archer Deaf Smith Hockley Oldham
Armstrong Dickens Hutchinson Parmer
Bailey Donley Kent Potter
Baylor Floyd King Randall
Bowie Foard Knox Red River
Briscoe Garza Lamar Roberts
Carson Gray Lamb Sherman
Cass Hale Lipscomb Stonewall
Castro Hall Lubbock Swisher
Childress Hansford Lynn Terry
Cochran Hardeman Marion Titus
Collingsworth Harrison Moore Wheeler
Cottle Hartley Morris Wichita
Crosby Haskell Motley Wilbarger
Dallam Hemphill Ochiltree Yoakum

Farmers and ranchers in contiguous counties in Texas also qualify for natural disaster assistance. Those counties are:

Borden Fannin Jack Shackelford
Camp Fisher Jones Throckmorton
Clay Franklin Panola Upshur
Dawson Gaines Rusk Young
Delta Gregg Scurry

Farmers and ranchers in contiguous counties and parishes in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma also qualify for natural disaster assistance. Those counties and parishes are:
Arkansas: Little River and Miller
Louisiana: Caddo
New Mexico: Curry, Lea, Quay, Roosevelt and Union
Oklahoma:

Beaver Cimarron Harmon Roger Mills
Beckham Cotton Jackson Texas
Bryan Ellis McCurtain Tillman
Choctaw

Oklahoma

Adair Cotton Jefferson Pittsburg
Alfalfa Custer Johnston Pontotoc
Atoka Dewey Kingfisher Pottawatomie
Beaver Ellis Kiowa Pushmataha
Beckham Garfield Latimer Roger Mills
Blaine Garvin Le Flore Seminole
Bryan Grady McClain Sequoyah
Caddo Grant McCurtain Stephens
Canadian Greer McIntosh Texas
Carter Harmon Major Tillman
Cherokee Harper Murray Wagoner
Choctaw Haskell Muskogee Washita
Cimarron Hughes Okfuskee Woods
Coal Jackson Okmulgee Woodward
Comanche

Farmers and ranchers in the contiguous counties in Oklahoma also qualify for natural disaster assistance. Those counties are:

Cleveland Lincoln Marshall Oklahoma
Creek Logan Mayes Rogers
Delaware Love Noble Tulsa
Kay

Farmers and ranchers in the contiguous counties in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas also qualify for natural disaster assistance. Those counties are:
Arkansas: Benton, Crawford, Little River, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, Sevier and Washington
Colorado: Baca
Kansas: Baber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stevens and Sumner
New Mexico: Union
Texas:

Bowie Fannin Lamar Sherman
Childress Grayson Lipscomb Wheeler
Clay Hansford Montague Wichita
Collingsworth Hardeman Ochiltree Wilbarger
Dallam Hemphill Red River

Louisiana

Bienville Claiborne Jackson Natchitoches Tensas
Bossier De Soto Lasalle Ouachita Union
Caddo East Carroll Lincoln Red River Webster
Caldwell Franklin Madison Richland West Carroll
Catahoula Grant Morehouse Sabine Winn

Farmers and ranchers in the contiguous parishes in Avoyelles, Concordia, Rapides and Vernon in Louisiana also qualify for natural disaster assistance.
Farmers and ranchers in the contiguous counties in Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas also qualify for natural disaster assistance. Those counties are:
Arkansas: Ashley, Chicot, Columbia, Lafayette, Miller and Union
Mississippi: Adams, Claiborne, Issaquena, Jefferson and Warren
Texas: Cass, Harrison, Marion, Newton, Panola, Sabine and Shelby


Arkansas

Arkansas Faulkner Lincoln Prairie
Ashley Franklin Little River Pulaski
Baxter Fulton Logan Randolph
Boone Garland Lonoke Saline
Bradley Grant Madison Scott
Calhoun Greene Marion Searcy
Carroll Hempstead Miller Sebastian
Clark Hot Spring Montgomery Sevier
Clay Howard Nevada Sharp
Cleburne Independence Newton Stone
Cleveland Izard Ouachita Union
Columbia Jefferson Perry Van Buren
Conway Johnson Pike Washington
Crawford Lafayette Polk White
Dallas Lawrence Pope Yell
Drew

Farmers and ranchers in the contiguous counties in Arkansas also qualify for natural disaster assistance. Those counties are Benton, Chicot, Craighead, Desha, Jackson, Monroe, Phillips and Woodruff.
Farmers and ranchers in the contiguous parishes and counties in Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas also qualify for natural disaster assistance.
Those parishes and counties are:
Louisiana: Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Morehouse, Union and Webster
Missouri: Barry, Butler, Dunklin, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Ripley, Stone and Taney
Oklahoma: Adair, Le Flore, McCurtain and Sequoyah
Texas: Bowie and Cass
For more information, visit www.fsa.usda.gov.

Written by:
kristin
Published on:
March 15, 2018

Categories: General, The Cattleman Now

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