Article: USDA DESIGNATES COUNTIES IN SOUTH DAKOTA AS NATURAL DISASTER AREAS

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency has issued the following press release:

The U.S. Department of Agriculture designated counties in South Dakota as primary natural disaster areas, making all qualified farm operators in the designated area eligible for low-interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA). In South Dakota, 18 counties were designated primary natural disaster areas due to losses caused by the combined effects of a late spring killing frost, extreme heat, high winds, hail, insect damage, insufficient subsoil moisture, prairie fires caused by dry lightning and ongoing drought that occurred on Jan. 1, 2006, and continuing. Those counties ...

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