98 Counties in Georgia Designated as Natural Disaster Areas

USDA has designated 98 counties in Georgia as natural disaster areas due to excessive rainfall that began last September and has continued through the first quarter of 2010. Counties affected by the rainfall experienced the loss of several field crops including corn, cotton, peanuts and soybeans. Forty-five other contiguous counties in Georgia as well as Alabama, Florida, North Carolina and Tennessee also have been declared disaster areas and qualify for emergency loans from the Farm Service Agency. Learn more.