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Farmers eligible for all types of assistance
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CopyORANGE CITY -- State executive director John R. Whitaker has announced that farm operators in Sioux and O'Brien Counties who have suffered major forage/crop production and/or physical losses from recent flooding may be eligible for an emergency loan.
The Farm Service Agency may make an emergency loan to eligible family farmers in an effort to help them return to normal operations.
Farmers may repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property, including essential buildings, fixtures to real estate, livestock or the loss of planted or unplanted crops. The cost includes clean-up.
Applicants must be unable to obtain credit from other usual sources to qualify for the Farm Service Agency loan program assistance. The interest rate is 3.75 percent.
Loans may be written up to seven years; however, if the loan is secured only on crops it must be repaid when the next crop year's income is received. Loans for real estate fixtures may be scheduled for a repayment of as much as
40 years.
The final application date is April 13, 2011.
For information, call the Sioux County Farm Service Agency at 1 -712-737-4801.
Unemployment Insurance
DES MOINES -- lowans living in Sioux and O'Brien Counties may be eligible for unemployment assistance benefits under the federal disaster program.
The federal government declared this area as a disaster area in mid-August as a result of flooding, severe thunderstorms and flooding.
Claims need to be filed by Friday, Sept. 17, according to director of Iowa Workforce Development Elisabeth Buck.
The benefits cover self-employed workers not usually entitled to unemployment insurance, including Iowa farmers.
People applying need to present proof of past earnings, such as business records or bank statements and their most recent tax form at the time the claim is filed.
For information, call the Orange City IWD office at 1-712-707-9870.
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