USDA
USDA has designated two Southwest Kansas counties and two Oklahoma Panhandle counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas.
This secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.
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 to refinance certain debts.
FSA will review the loans based on the extent of losses, security available, and repayment ability.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, these counties suffered from a drought intensity value during the growing season of 1) D2 Drought-Severe for 8 or more consecutive weeks or 2) D3 Drought-Extreme or D4 Drought-Exceptional.
Impacted Area: Kansas
Triggering Disaster: Drought
Primary Counties Eligible: Meade and Clark
Contiguous Counties Also Eligible: Comanche, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Kiowa and Seward
In Oklahoma, Beaver County and Harper County are also eligible.
