“President Obama and I understand these conditions caused severe damage to a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and numerous other crops, and prevented farmers from harvesting these crops,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “This action will provide help to farmers who suffered significant production losses.”
The counties are:
Appling Dade Jenkins Schley
Atkinson Dawson Johnson Screven
Bacon De Kalb Jones
Baker
Baldwin Dodge Lanier
Banks Dooly Laurens Stewart
Barrow Dougherty Lee
Bartow Douglas Liberty Talbot
Ben Hill Early
Berrien Echols Long
Bibb
Bleckley Elbert
Brantley Emanuel Macon Terrell
Brooks Evans Madison Thomas
Bryan Fannin Marion Tift
Bulloch Fayette McDuffie Toombs
Burke Floyd
Butts
Calhoun Franklin Mitchell Troup
Candler Fulton
Carroll
Catoosa Glascock Murray Union
Charlton Gordon Muscogee Upson
Chatham Grady Oconee Walker
Chattahoochee Gwinnett Oglethorpe Walton
Chattooga Habersham Paulding Ware
Cherokee Hall
Clarke
Clay
Clinch
Cobb Hart
Coffee Heard Pulaski
Colquitt Henry Putnam Whitfield
Columbia Houston Quitman Wilcox
Cook Irwin
Coweta Jackson Randolph Wilkinson
Crawford Jeff Davis Richmond Worth
Crisp
Farmers and ranchers in the following counties in Georgia also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous:
Camden Glynn Jasper Morgan Clayton
Greene McIntosh Newton
Farmers and ranchers in the following counties in Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous:
Alabama
Barbour Cleburne Houston Randolph
Chambers De Kalb Jackson Russell
Cherokee Henry Lee
Florida
Baker
Columbia Jackson Madison Jefferson
Nassau
North Carolina
Cherokee Clay
South Carolina
Abbeville Allendale Barnwell Hampton McCormick
Aiken Anderson Edgefield Jasper Oconee
Tennessee
Bradley Hamilton Marion Polk
All counties listed above were designated natural disaster areas Nov. 26, 2010, 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.
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