USDA names more Illinois counties as disaster areas

Another 63 Illinois counties were added as Primary Natural Disaster Areas.

Compiled by staff

Published: Aug 1, 2012

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced new drought designations today, including declaring 63 more Illinois counties as primary natural disaster areas. The counties added include:

Adams	Bond	Boone
Brown	Calhoun	Carroll
Cass	Champaign	Christian
Clark	Clay	Clinton
Coles	Cumberland	DeWitt
Douglas	Edgar	Effingham
Fayette	Ford	Fulton
Greene	Hancock	Henderson
Iroquois	Jasper	Jefferson
Jersey	JoDaviess	LaSalle
Lee	Livingston	Logan
Macon	Macoupin	Madison
Marion	Marshall	Mason
McDonough	McLean	Menard
Monroe	Montgomery	Morgan
Moultrie	Ogle	Peoria
Perry	Piatt	Randolph
Rock Island	Sangamon	Schuyler
Scott	Shelby	St. Clair
Stephenson	Tazewell	Vermilion
Warren	Washington	Wayne
Whiteside	Winnebago	Woodford

Emergency Haying and Grazing

Vilsack today announced that livestock producers and other participants in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) will now be able to hay and graze acres that have been ineligible in the past. Many of these additional acres have wetland-related characteristics and are likely to contain better quality hay and forage than on other CRP acres. There are approximately 3.8 million acres that will now be eligible for emergency haying and grazing, subject to certain conditions. Producers should contact their local Farm Service Agency offices for additional information.

Federal Crop Insurance

Vilsack also announced that crop insurance companies have agreed to provide a short grace period for farmers on insurance premiums in 2012. To help producers who may have cash flow problems due to natural disasters, Secretary Vilsack sent a letter to crop insurance companies asking them to voluntarily defer the accrual of any interest on unpaid spring crop premiums by producers until November 1, 2012. In turn, to assist the crop insurance companies, USDA will not require crop insurance companies to pay uncollected producer premiums until one month later.

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