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Farm Service Agency Emergency Loans Available to 207 Disaster Counties in Texas

By: Press Release
Updated: January 14, 2013
USDA Texas Farm Service Agency (FSA) Acting Executive Director James B. Douglass announced that 207 counties in Texas were declared a disaster on January 9, 2013, due to drought and heat using the new, streamlined Secretarial Disaster Designation process. Under this designation, producers with operations in any of the 157 primary disaster counties or 50 contiguous disaster counties are eligible to apply for low interest emergency loans.

The streamlined disaster designation process issues a drought disaster declaration when a county has experienced a drought intensity value of at least a D2 (severe drought) level for eight consecutive weeks based on the U.S. Drought Monitor during the crop year. Under this declaration 157 counties in Texas have reached that threshold since November 1, 2012.

The following 157 counties were designated as primary disaster counties:

Andrews

Dallas

Hartley

La Salle

Archer

Dawson

Haskell

Limestone

Armstrong

Deaf Smith

Hemphill

Lipscomb

Bailey

Delta

Hidalgo

Live Oak

Bandera

Denton

Hill

Lubbock

Baylor

De Witt

Hockley

Lynn

Bee

Dickens

Hood

McLennan

Bell

Dimmit

Hopkins

McMullen

Borden

Donley

Hudspeth

Maverick

Bosque

Duval

Hunt

Menard

Bowie

Eastland

Hutchinson

Milam

Briscoe

Edwards

Jack

Mills

Brooks

Ellis

Jeff Davis

Mitchell

Brown

El Paso

Jim Hogg

Montague

Burnet

Erath

Jim Wells

Moore

Callahan

Falls

Johnson

Motley

Cameron

Fannin

Jones

Navarro

Carson

Fisher

Karnes

Nolan

Castro

Floyd

Kaufman

Nueces

Childress

Foard

Kendall

Ochiltree

Clay

Freestone

Kenedy

Oldham

Cochran

Gaines

Kent

Palo Pinto

Collin

Garza

Kerr

Parker

Collingsworth

Gillespie

Kimble

Parmer

Comanche

Goliad

King

Potter

Cooke

Gray

Kinney

Presidio

 

 

 

 

Coryell

Grayson

Kleberg

Rains

Cottle

Hale

Knox

Randall

Crockett

Hall

Lamar

Real

Crosby

Hamilton

Lamb

Red River

Culberson

Hansford

Lampasas

Refugio

Dallam

Hardeman

Roberts

Robertson

Rockwall

San Patricio

San Saba

Schleicher

Scurry

Shackelford

Sherman

Somervell

Starr

Stephens

Stonewall

Sutton

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