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New USDA Funds to Help Producers Protect Conversation Uses After Disaster
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 08/22/2008

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer announced that farmers and ranchers will receive USDA funding to repair land damage created by natural disasters in 34 states since September 2007. Producers will use the $87.5 million in Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) funding for removal of farmland debris, restoring fences and repairing conservation structures which were caused or damaged by floods, and for carrying out emergency water conservation measures in response to severe drought.

The agency says Wisconsin producers will get $3.03 million of the total to be released. For land to be eligible, the natural disaster must create new conservation problems that if untreated, will impair or endanger the land; materially affect the land's productive capacity; represent unusual damage that, except for wind erosion, is not of the type likely to recur frequently in the same area; and would be so costly to repair that federal assistance is or will be required to return the land to productive agricultural use.

"This funding will allow farmers and ranchers to repair the unusually harsh damage to conservation efforts caused by the disaster conditions, notably flooding and drought," said Schafer. "USDA has worked shoulder to shoulder with producers when weather turns against them, and we remain involved to help in the weeks and months of recovery afterward."

FSA county committees determine land eligibility based on on-site inspections of damage, taking into account the type and extent of damage.

A detailed list of counties and associated specific disasters is on FSA's Web site at: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/ecpcounties.pdf.


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