{"id":413983,"date":"2015-11-02T13:41:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T19:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=413983"},"modified":"2015-11-03T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:41:00","slug":"fsa-accepting-drought-relief-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=413983","title":{"rendered":"FSA Accepting Drought Relief Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/11\/drought.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/11\/drought-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"drought\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-413984\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is now accepting applications for emergency farm loans due to damages and losses caused by drought beginning October 13 and continuing in Cherokee, Gregg, Henderson, Rusk, Smith, Upshur, and Van Zandt Counties.  In a news release, Smith County Farm Loan Manager Joseph Grier asks farmers who want to apply for emergency loans to submit their applications as soon as possible.  The deadline for applications is June 21, 2016, but Grier says if farmers wait too long, a backlog will develop and cause delays.  Grier says generally, farmers who have lost 30% of their production or any physical loss due to the disaster are eligible for the emergency loans. <!--more-->   <\/p>\n<p>The FSA office is located at 4209 Republic Drive in Tyler.  The telephone number is (903) 561-2050, with office hours from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  Go to may be found online at <a href=\"http:\/\/disaster.fsa.usda.gov\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/disaster.fsa.usda.gov<\/a> for additional information regarding Disaster Assistance Programs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is now accepting applications for emergency farm loans due to damages and losses caused by drought beginning October 13 and continuing in Cherokee, Gregg, Henderson, Rusk, Smith, Upshur, and Van Zandt Counties. In a news release, Smith County Farm Loan Manager Joseph Grier asks farmers who want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=413983\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FSA Accepting Drought Relief Applications<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":413984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 15:59:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413986,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413983\/revisions\/413986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/413984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}