16 Minnesota Counties Designated as Disaster Areas

Sixteen counties in Minnesota have been designated a natural disaster area by the USDA due to the combined effects of excessive rain, flooding, unseasonably cool temperatures, frosts, freezes and drought that occurred during the 2009 growing season. Producers suffered losses to various crops including corn, soybeans, wheat and blueberries. Several contiguous counties in Minnesota and one county in the adjacent states of North Dakota and Wisconsin are also natural disaster areas and are eligible to receive emergency loans from the Farm Service Agency. Learn more.