FSA expects great interest

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Signup for a federal disaster program for agriculture begins next week and the local Farm Services Agency expects many local producers will apply.

"We expect 100 percent," said Mike Zook, executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's FSA office in Hill County. "Because of the crop situation that occurred in 2001 we would expect losses on every single farm in the county to come in under this program."

The office will begin making appointments for that signup after Wednesday as it...