USDA disaster declaration for 19 upstate NY counties

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EmpireStateNews

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved primary county disaster designations for five New York counties, due to losses caused by freeze that occurred December 1, 2013, and continuing. Those counties are: Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Oswego and Yates.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer also said that the Secretarial natural disaster declaration will apply for all counties contiguous to those five, which include: Allegany, Cortland, Erie, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins, Wayne and Wyoming. Schumer visited numerous wineries this winter and urged that the USDA approve this declaration so that emergency loans could be made available to these farms.

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