-Information courtesy Paul McKenzie, Area Agent, Vance/Warren Co. Cooperative Extension 

Farmers have until 5 p.m. on Thursday, December 20, 2018, to begin an application for the NCDA&CS Hurricane Disaster Relief program. Assistance is available from both the Vance and Warren offices of NC Cooperative Extension, and also available through the NCDA&CS Agriculture Disaster Assistance Hotline (866-645-9403).

Farmers that START an application by the deadline will have a few extra days to complete it.

To recap, the program is designed to provide assistance to farmers with losses to nursery products, turf, select specialty crops, livestock, poultry, standing forage and field crops. The program will cover losses from Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Michael.

Agricultural products raised in Vance and Warren ARE ELIGIBLE. The application should take about 30 minutes to fill out. Complete program details and a link to the application are available by clicking here.