The Secretary of Agriculture designated Kansas counties as primary agricultural natural disaster areas making certain farmers and other agricultural producers in the counties eligible for low-interest emergency loans from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), in addition to other disaster programs.
Twelve Missouri counties were designated as contiguous natural disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by drought which occurred November 15, 2012, and continuing.
Producers in contiguous counties may also be eligible for programs based on this designation. The contiguous counties are: Andrew, Barton, Bates, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Holt, Jackson, Jasper, Newton, Platte and Vernon.
All counties listed above were designated natural disaster areas on January 16, 2013, 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.
Loans for physical losses must be used to replace or repair damage to buildings, fences or to compensate the farmer for losses of basic livestock, stored crops, or supplies on hand, equipment, etc., that was lost due to the disaster. Loans for production losses may also be used to buy feed, seed, fertilizer, livestock or to make payments on real estate or chattel debts. Generally, loans for production losses cannot be approved until crops have completed their production cycle or have been harvested.
In order to qualify, a farmer must have suffered a 30% loss in production or an actual physical loss that was essential to the successful operation of the farm.
USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender.
Interested farmers may contact the Nodaway County FSA office at (660) 582-7423 for further
information on eligibility requirements and application procedures for these and other programs
or visit www.fsa.usda.gov.
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