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USDA Designates 17 New York Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas Genesee Local Offers These natural disaster designations allow 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. Freeze and Frost – April – June 2020 Producers in Broome, Cat...

Hurricane Sally Relief and China Testing Meat Imports Wednesday Jan 6th, 2021 From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update. **Farmers and forest landowners in four Florida Panhandle counties can begin applying for additional Hurricane Sally assistance through the USDA’s Farm Service Agency. Enrollment for the Emergency Conservation Program and Emergency Forest Restoration Program began Monday and runs through March 4th. The Florida Department of ...

January 6, 2021 Local farmers and forest landowners can now apply for additional Hurricane Sally assistance. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services encourages eligible producers to apply for for the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) and Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP). Registration opened Monday and will continue through March 4. The activation of the ECP and EFRP programs are for those with farmland and private forestland damaged by natural disasters in Es...

Ag News: Hurricane Sally Relief and China Testing Meat Imports **Farmers and forest landowners in four Florida Panhandle counties can begin applying for additional Hurricane Sally assistance through the USDA’s Farm Service Agency. Enrollment for the Emergency Conservation Program and Emergency Forest Restoration Program began Monday and runs through March 4th. The Florida Department of Agriculture encourages eligible producers in Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, and Walton counties to apply. *...

Drought conditions ‘significantly improved’ statewide, task force closed Thu, 12/17/2020 - 6:00pm AUGUSTA — Maine’s Drought Task Force met virtually Thursday to discuss the drought conditions across the state. Since the Task Force met a month ago, drought conditions have significantly improved across the state. According to the latest Drought Monitor, five percent of the state remains in drought status. The National Weather Service reported large precipitation gains over the l...

Weeks ago. when farmers have catastrophic damage like that from natural disasters, we have decided as a country that they should be able to turn to the emergency conservation program at the farm services administration. its basically a program that says, its not in our national interest as a country to lose all our farmland and to have to sell it off for development or whatever because of one-time disasters. if a farmer is hit by an act of god, we have this emergency conservation program, essent...

Those inspectors are staying home. were hoping theres no plot being hatched against the united states that in normal circumstances would be ferreted out by one of our intelligence agencies that is mostly manned by civilian employees, since 72% of our civilian employees in the intelligence community have been sent home. but then theres all the stuff thats not just about closing your eyes and cringing and hoping something really awful doesnt happen miss sthuf that -- theres also the stuff that we ...