Announcements
Starting January 16, 2013 - Ending February 16, 2014
Farm Service Agency emergency loans available to 207 disaster counties in Texas
January 11, 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.