Ag producer flood assistance available

Press release

Hill County producers may be eligible for assistance because of the 2018 Spring Flood in Hill County. Farms and ranches suffering severe damage may be eligible for assistance under the Emergency Conservation Program administered by the Hill County Farm Service Agency.

For land to be eligible, the natural disaster must create new conservation problems that if untreated, would be so, costly to rehabilitate that Federal assistance is or will be needed to return the land to productive agricultural use. The damage is unusual and is not the type that would recur frequently in the same...