The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s North Dakota State Emergency Board reviewed and approved damage assessment reports for 16 North Dakota counties recently. The reports will now be sent on to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to support a potential disaster designation for those counties.
The damage assessment process was completed in response to Governor Jack Dalrymple’s request to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack for a secretarial disaster designation. The designation, if made by the Secretary, makes low-interest emergency loans available to eligible producers.
“The sixteen counties we looked at today are in addition to 25 counties already designated under USDA’s fast-track designation process for drought,” said Aaron Krauter, State Executive Director for Farm Service Agency in North Dakota and chair of the State Emergency Board. “These additional counties saw significant forage losses because of both dry conditions and insect damage.“
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