WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2018 — Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated three Pennsylvania counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Columbia, Lebanon and York counties who suffered losses due to excessive rain, flash flooding and flooding that occurred from July 21 and continuing, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
Producers in the contiguous Pennsylvania counties of Adams, Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Luzerne, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill and Sullivan, along with Baltimore, Carroll and Harford counties in Maryland, are also eligible to apply for emergency loans.
The deadline to apply for these emergency loans is July 29, 2019.