This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. 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. FSA will review the loans based on the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor (see http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ ), these counties suffered from a drought intensity value during the growing season of 1) D2 Drought-Severe for 8 or more consecutive weeks or 2) D3 Drought-Extreme or D4 Drought-Exceptional.
State: Texas
Triggering Disaster: Drought
Application Deadline: November 5, 2021
Primary Counties Eligible:
Andrews Aransas Armstrong Atascosa Bailey Bandera Bastrop Bell Bexar Blanco Borden Brazos Brewster Briscoe Brooks Brown Burleson Caldwell Cameron Castro Childress Cochran Coleman Collingsworth
Comal Concho Crane Crockett Crosby Culberson Dallam Dawson Deaf Smith Dickens Dimmit Donley Duval Ector Edwards El Paso Floyd Frio Gaines Garza Gillespie Glasscock Gray Grimes
Guadalupe Hale Hall Hardeman Hays Hemphill Hidalgo Hockley Howard Hudspeth Irion Jeff Davis Jim Hogg Kendall Kenedy Kerr Kimble Kinney Lamb La Salle Lee Llano Loving Lubbock
Lynn McCulloch McMullen Martin Mason Maverick Medina Menard Midland Milam Mills Motley Nueces Oldham Parmer Pecos Presidio Randall Reagan Real Reeves Refugio Roberts
Runnels San Patricio San Saba Starr Sterling Swisher Terrell Terry Tom Green Travis Upton Uvalde Val Verde Ward Webb Wheeler Willacy Williamson Wilson Winkler Yoakum Zapata Zavala
Contiguous Counties also Eligible:
Texas: Bee, Burnet, Calhoun, Callahan, Carson, Coke, Camanche, Coryell, Cottle, Eastland, Falls, Fayette, Foard, Goliad, Gonzales, Hamilton, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchison, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kent, King, Kleberg, Lampasas, Leon, Lipscomb, Live Oak, McLennan, Madison, Mitchell, Montgomery, Moore, Nolan, Ochiltree, Potter, Robertson, Schleicher, Scurry, Sherman, Stonewall, Sutton, Taylor, Victoria, Walker, Waller, Washington and Wilbarger.
New Mexico: Curry, Dona Ana, Eddy, Lea, Otero, Quay, Roosevelt and Union
Oklahoma: Beckham, Cimarron, Ellis, Harmon, Jackson and Roger Mills
For more information on FSA disaster assistance programs or to find your local USDA Service Center visit farmers.gov/recover.
