USDA Designates Ag Disaster Counties in Texas

WASHINGTON - Apr 21/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Texas as primary agricultural disaster areas.

In Texas, Oldham, Potter and Armstrong Counties were designated as primary disaster areas due to losses caused by excessive rain that occurred from Nov. 25, 2004, and continuing. Also eligible because they are contiguous include:

Briscoe     Deaf Smith     Gray          Moore          Randall
Carson      Donley         Hartley       Hutchinson     Swisher

Also in Texas, Hemphill County was designated as a primary disaster area due to losses caused by excessive rain, excessive temperatures and a freeze that occurred from Nov. 1, 2004, and continuing. Also eligible because they are contiguous include: Gray, Lipscomb, Roberts, and Wheeler.

Hunt County, Texas was designated as a primary disaster area due to losses caused by excessive rain that occurred from Nov. 1, 2004, and continuing. Also eligible because they are contiguous include:

Collin     Fannin          Kaufman          Rockwall
Delta     Hopkins          Rains          Van Zandt

Callahan County, Texas was designated as a primary disaster area due to losses caused by excessive rain that occurred from Nov. 15, 2004, and continuing. Also eligible because they are contiguous include:

Brown               Eastland               Shackelford
Coleman               Jones                    Taylor