USDA DEsignates Ag Disasters in Ohio

WASHINGTON - Sep 15/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated 47 Ohio counties as primary agricultural disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by various disasters that occurred in 2004.

For excess rain, lightning, high winds, flooding, hail, and a tornado that occurred from May 1, 2004, and continuing the following counties are designated as primary agricultural areas:

Allen          Cuyahoga  Hocking   Noble
Athens         Fayette   Holmes    Perry
Carroll        Greene    Jackson   Tuscarawas
Columbiana     Guernsey  Logan     Union
Coshocton      Hancock   Mahoning  Wayne
Crawford       Henry     Medina

For excess moisture that occurred from May 1, 2004, and continuing the following counties are designated as primary agricultural areas:

Ashtabula      Lake      Morgan    Scioto
Defiance       Licking   Muskingum Seneca
Delaware       Logan     Ottawa    Summit
Erie           Lorain    Paulding  Van Wert
Fairfield      Lucas     Portage   Wood
Geauga         Marion    Sandusky  Wyandot

The following counties are designated as contiguous for excess rain, lightning, high winds, flooding, hail, and a tornado that occurred from May 1, 2004, and continuing:

Ashland        Hardin    Meigs     Seneca
Auglaize       Harrison  Monroe    Shelby
Belmont        Highland  Montgomery      Stark
Champaign      Huron     Morgan    Summit
Clark          Jefferson Morrow    Trumbull
Clinton        Knox      Muskingum Van Wert
Defiance       Lake      Pickaway  Vinton
Delaware       Lawrence  Pike      Warren
Fairfield      Licking   Portage   Washington
Franklin       Lorain    Putnam    Williams
Fulton         Lucas     Richland  Wood
Gallia         Madison   Ross      Wyandot
Geauga         Marion    Scioto

The following counties are designated as contiguous for excess moisture that occurred from May 1, 2004, and continuing:

Adams          Franklin  Knox      Pike
Allen          Fulton    Lawrence  Putnam
Ashland        Guernsey  Mahoning  Shelby
Athens         Hancock   Medina    Stark
Auglaize       Hardin    Mercer    Trumbull
Champaign      Henry     Morrow    Union
Coshocton      Hocking   Noble     Washington
Crawford       Huron     Perry     Wayne
Cuyahoga       Jackson   Pickaway  Williams