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USDA designates more IN counties as Primary Natural Disaster areas

USDA  designated 14 additional Indiana counties as Primary Natural Disaster areas.  State Executive Director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency Julia Wickard says the additional counties were added due to the losses caused by this year’s extreme drought.  She says, “Indiana FSA is committed to helping farmers navigate the multitude of programs that may be available in eligible counties.” 

Allen	*Bartholomew	*Brown	Carroll	Cass
*Clay	Crawford	Daviess	DeKalb	Dubois
Elkhart	Fulton	Gibson	Grant	Greene
*Hamilton	*Hancock	*Hendricks	Howard	Huntington
*Johnson	Knox	Kosciusko	LaGrange	Lawrence
*Marion	Marshall	Martin	Miami	*Monroe
*Morgan	Noble	Orange	*Owen	*Parke
Perry	Pike	Posey	Pulaski	*Putnam
St. Joseph	*Shelby	Spencer	Steuben	Sullivan
Vanderburgh	Wabash	Warrick	Wells	Whitley

Eleven additional counties also qualify for assistance because they are contiguous to the designated counties.

Adams	Blackford	*Boone	Clay	Clinton
*Decatur	Delaware	*Fountain	*Greene	Harrison
*Henry	Jackson	Jasper	Jay	*Jennings
LaPorte	*Lawrence	Madison	Monroe	*Montgomery
Owen	*Rush	Starke	*Sullivan	Tippecanoe
Tipton	*Vermillion	Vigo	Washington	White

Counties in bold and marked with an asterisk are the most recently added counties.