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Tuesday, September 1, 2020
USDA Designates 4 Adjacent Oklahoma Counties, and 14 Texas Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 14 Texas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Andrews, Brewster, Collingsworth, Culberson, Hall, Hemphill, Hockley, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves, Sutton and Ward counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (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 counties listed below are also eligible to apply for emergency loans:

Texas: Bailey, Briscoe, Childress, Cochran, Cottle, Crane, Crockett, Donley, Ector, Edwards, El Paso, Hale, Gaines, Gray, Kimble, Lamb, Lipscomb, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Menard, Midland, Motley, Pecos, Roberts, Schleicher, Terrell, Terry, Wheeler, Winkler, Val Verde and Yoakum
New Mexico: Eddy, Lea and Otero
Oklahoma: Beckham, Ellis, Harmon, and Roger Mills
The deadline to apply for these emergency loans is April 26, 2021.
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