Farmers bring questions about USDA recovery programs

Farmers bring questions about USDA recovery programs

Travis Roling

Farmers had a lot of questions about USDA programs for flood

recovery. Thursday, at a meeting with four USDA agencies, the Farm Service

Agency stressed the importance of landowners contacting the FSA prior to

starting repairs on damaged land. Conservation specialist Shelly Berry says the

ECP, Emergency Conservation Program funds, are intended to bring land to its

original condition.

Marty Comstock with the Natural Resources Conservation Service says the

Emergency Watershed Program, the EWP, will help with levee repair on smaller tributaries.

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