Agricultural tractor moving on the asphalt road after working in field.

Washington County and most of the KCII-listening area is included in the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture’s Secretarial disaster declaration. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue approved Governor Kim Reynolds’ request for the disaster designation. The declaration includes Johnson, Benton, Boone, Cedar, Clinton, Dallas, Guthrie, Hamilton, Hardin, Jasper, Jones, Linn, Marshall, Polk, Poweshiek, Scott, Story, and Tama counties. In addition, under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, 24 other counties were designated under contiguous natural disaster counties which includes Washington, Keokuk, Iowa, and Louisa counties. This designation allows producers to apply for certain assistance from the Farm Service Agency including emergency loans.

Contiguous natural disaster counties include: Adair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Butler, Carroll, Cass, Delaware, Dubuque, Franklin, Greene, Grundy, Iowa, Jackson, Keokuk, Louisa, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Muscatine, Warren, Washington, Webster, and Wright.