Gov. Jay Nixon today asked Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to designate 101 Missouri counties – including Texas – as primary disaster areas. The designation will permit assistance from the USDA’s Farm Service Agency to farmers in those counties who have suffered losses to crops and property as a result of excessive heat and severe drought this summer.
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