{"id":6584,"date":"2020-10-21T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T13:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2020-10-21T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T13:05:14","slug":"ct-disaster-assistance-for-farmers-because-of-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/ct-disaster-assistance-for-farmers-because-of-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"CT DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR FARMERS BECAUSE OF DROUGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">CT DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR FARMERS BECAUSE OF DROUGHT<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">All eight counties in Connecticut have received disaster declarations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a result of the ongoing drought that has been negatively impacting the region\u2019s farm industry.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">The designation means that farmers in the state are eligible to be considered for certain disaster assistance from the Farm Service Agency (FSA), such as emergency loans, provided eligibility requirements are met. FSA considers each emergency loan application on its own merits, taking into account the extent of production losses on the farm and the security and repayment ability of the operator. Farmers interested in applying for the assistance should contact their local FSA office.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\u201cThe USDA\u2019s disaster declaration will help Connecticut farmers mitigate the losses and additional expenses incurred due to the drought,\u201d Connecticut Agriculture Commissioner Bryan P. Hurlburt said. \u201cThe impacts have been widespread throughout the state as producers worked to keep fields irrigated, hauled in water when wells went dry, and experienced significant losses of food production and livestock crops.\u201d<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div>Last week, the Connecticut Interagency Drought Workgroup \u2013 a state entity consisting of representatives from several state agencies \u2013 increased the drought status for four counties in Connecticut \u2013\u00a0Hartford, New London, Tolland, and Windham \u2013 to Stage 3.\u00a0Middlesex and Litchfield counties remain at Stage 2, and Fairfield and New Haven Counties remain at Stage. The highest drought stage as specified by the Connecticut Drought Preparedness and Response Plan is Stage 5.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001YmC-vifg9HJH_jVtNPb5j6dE-ebOukHlclkIk8IuGE8uArpAVIkAIqw4oLU2OdhVMlmNqjNPF_Ghaipf8ykCmSXbkuv8GzHdrWGrQbnx-dFzXl_edaNV76JaabrtlO9b4mZzbBadrz25noR1If5PCuc0vK7KZhc5pCO3ASrW4w65cHeEXan-wTgngilvmRxyt4YIkKPGC0GpIk-jAjC05V0oKuBA_OlHbZVYCLuTsvb7yUBqhL4-Eg==&amp;c=1v7KI071p8XFRzH8M4SRnG4jhCOdGg8c52cb564CGhqpdWmJM5N2cw==&amp;ch=duicQbydG2AcZfXZudDfAznFRzj6d4sr0T4Tybn05osLQOW34cajOg==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INFORMATION ON THE LOAN AND ASSISTANCE HERE<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CT DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR FARMERS BECAUSE OF DROUGHT All eight  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6585,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions\/6585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}