By Blake Jackson
A Presidential disaster declaration has authorized the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) to provide emergency loans to agricultural producers in Kentucky recovering from severe weather events.
These loans aim to assist with recovery needs, including replacing essential equipment or livestock, restructuring farming operations, and refinancing specific debts.
The FSA will evaluate loan applications based on the extent of losses, available security, and the applicant's ability to repay.
This assistance is available for losses caused by severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides, and mudslides that began on February 14, 2025, and continued.
Producers in designated primary and contiguous counties have until November 14, 2025, to apply for these loans.
Primary counties eligible for these emergency loans include Breckinridge, Edmonson, Franklin, Greenup, Henderson, Henry, Jackson, Lawrence Leslie, Menifee, Nicholas, Powell, Pulaski, Robertson, Whitley, Wolfe, and Woodford Counties in Kentucky.
Additionally, producers in the following contiguous counties are also eligible: Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt, Butler, Carroll, Carter, Casey, Clark, Clay, Daviess, Elliott, Estill, Fayette, Fleming, Grayson, Hancock, Hardin, Harlan, Harrison, Hart, Jessamine, Johnson, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Lewis, Lincoln, McCreary, McLean, Madison, Magoffin, Martin, Mason, Meade, Mercer, Montgomery, Morgan, Ohio, Oldham, Owen, Owsley, Perry, Rockcastle, Rowan, Russell, Scott, Shelby, Trimble, Union, Warren, Wayne, and Webster Counties in Kentucky.
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Categories: Kentucky, Government & Policy, Weather