After record warm temperatures in the first half of this year, it was no surprise to find last week that the Department of Agriculture has now designated more than half of all U.S. counties — 1,584 in 32 states — as primary disaster areas where crops and grazing areas have been ravaged by drought.
This summer's devastating dry spell led the federal government to designate more than half the counties in the United States as primary disaster areas.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture declared 16 Florida counties, including Miami-Dade, Collier, and Palm Beach, as primary disaster areas due to flooding, making farmers and their families there eligible for USDA emergency farm loans.
On Wednesday, federal officials said they were designating portions of 11 drought-ridden western and central states as primary natural disaster areas, highlighting the financial strain the lack of rain is likely to bring to farmers in those regions.
Memories of the 1930s Dust Bowl have even been revived, although agricultural practices have improved greatly since then.Across the country, more than 1,000 counties in 29 states have been designated primary natural disaster counties by the Department of Agriculture USDAA).
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In Texas, 240 counties were designated "primary natural disaster areas" by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in April, along with several counties in Oklahoma.
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