WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Extreme drought withered grain across the Great Plains. Flooding from the Mississippi and Missouri rivers drowned corn and other crops from Nebraska to Louisiana. A tropical storm on the East Coast submerged Carolina tobacco fields and New Jersey blueberry bushes.
When it comes to natural disasters, this has been a “monster” year for farmers, one agriculture official said.
Yet few farmers are taking advantage of a federal loan program aimed at helping them recover. Only six states have fewer than three-fourths of their counties covered by some type of disaster declaration. In nearly half of the states, every county has been officially designated a disaster area. That means thousands of farms could apply for emergency loans.
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