FSA designates local counties as disaster areas (The Daily Star)

Chenango, Delaware, Otsego and Schoharie were among the counties designated in New York as agricultural disaster areas because of excessive rain, flooding, flash flooding, hail and winds from weather that hit the area June 1 and later, according to a press release from the Farm Service Agency.The announcement Aug. 25, by state USDA Farm Service Agency Executive Director James Barber, qualifies ...