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Home Ā» USDA designates two Pa. counties as primary natural disaster areas
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USDA designates two Pa. counties as primary natural disaster areas

Emergency support to producers in surrounding counties/border state also available

PUBLISHED ON September 17, 2019

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Pennsylvania counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Lackawanna and Wayne counties who suffered losses due to excessive rain, flash flooding, and flooding that occurred July 21, 2018, through Feb. 28, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans. (photo by Mark Plummer, creative commons/flickr.com)

WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Pennsylvania counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Lackawanna and Wayne counties who suffered losses due to excessive rain, flash flooding, and flooding that occurred July 21, 2018, through Feb. 28, 2019, 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 Pennsylvania counties of Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Susquehanna, and Wyoming, along with Broome, Delaware, and Sullivan counties in New York, are also eligible to apply for emergency loans.

The deadline to apply for these emergency loans isĀ April 29, 2020.

FSA will review the loans based on the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability.

FSA has a variety of additional programs to help farmers recover from the impacts of this disaster. FSA programs that do not require a disaster declaration include:Ā Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish Program;Ā Emergency Conservation Program;Ā Livestock Forage Disaster Program;Ā Livestock Indemnity Program;Ā Operating and Farm Ownership Loans;Ā and theĀ Tree Assistance Program.

Farmers may contact their local USDA service center for further information on eligibility requirements and application procedures for these and other programs. Additional information is also available online atĀ farmers.gov/recover.

–USDA

 

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