Hall is one of 126 Georgia counties designated Primary Natural Disaster Areas by the state Department of Agriculture and its federal counterpart due to ongoing drought conditions. Banks, Barrow, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Jackson, Lumpkin, and White are also included.
This makes farm operators in these counties and those counties contiguous to them eligible to be considered for Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loan assistance provided eligibility requirements are met. Producers can contact their county FSA office for more information.
“Extreme drought conditions are impacting thousands of farm families across our state – causing even more uncertainty and driving up costs on the farm at a critical time,” said state Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper. “This Secretarial disaster declaration will allow Georgia producers to tap into additional, federal support as the drought conditions continue, and I’m deeply grateful to Secretary Brooke Rollins and the Trump Administration for their continued support of Georgia’s #1 industry and the farm families who fuel its success.”
The primary counties are:
Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Banks, Barrow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley, Brantley, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Calhoun, Camden, Candler, Catoosa, Charlton, Chatham, Chattahoochee, Clarke, Clay, Clinch, Coffee, Colquitt, Columbia, Cook, Crawford, Crisp, Decatur, Dodge, Dooly, Dougherty, Early, Echols, Effingham, Elbert, Emanuel, Evans, Fannin, Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer, Glascock, Glynn, Grady, Greene, Gwinnett, Hall, Hancock, Harris, Hart, Houston, Irwin, Jackson, Jeff Davis, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson, Lamar, Lanier, Laurens, Lee, Liberty, Lincoln, Long, Lowndes, Lumpkin, McDuffie, McIntosh, Macon, Madison, Marion, Meriwether, Miller, Mitchell, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Peach, Pierce, Pulaski, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Screven, Seminole, Stephens, Stewart, Sumter, Talbot, Taliaferro, Tattnall, Taylor, Telfair, Terrell, Thomas, Tift, Toombs, Towns, Treutlen, Troup, Turner, Twiggs, Union, Upson, Walker, Walton, Ware, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Wheeler, White, Whitfield, Wilcox, Wilkes, Wilkinson, Worth.