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: North Dakota
Triggering Disaster: Drought
Application Deadline: Dec. 20, 2021
Primary Counties Eligible:
Adams Benson Billings Bottineau Bowman Burke Burleigh Cavalier Divide Dunn Eddy
Emmons Foster Golden Valley Grant Hettinger Kidder LaMoure Logan McHenry McIntosh McKenzie
McLean Mercer Morton Mountrail Nelson Oliver Pembina Pierce Ramsey Renville Rolette
Sheridan Sioux Slope Stark Stutsman Towner Walsh Ward Wells Williams
Contiguous Counties also Eligible:
* North Dakota:
Barnes Dickey
Grand Forks Griggs
Ransom Steele
* Minnesota: Kittson and Marshall
* Montana: Fallon, Richland, Roosevelt, Sheridan and Wibaux
* South Dakota: Campbell, Corson, Harding, McPherson and Perkins
For more information on FSA disaster assistance programs or to find your local USDA Service Center visit farmers.gov/recover.
