Article: USDA DESIGNATES 23 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 23 counties in South Dakota as 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, and ongoing drought that occurred on Jan. 1, 2006, and continuing. The designation makes all qualified farm operators in the areas eligible for low-interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA). In South Dakota, 23 counties were designated primary natural disaster areas. Those counties are: * Brule* Edmunds* ...

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