Six counties were designated as primary disaster areas and eight counties were designated as contiguous disaster counties
The six counties designated as primary disaster areas are Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Jackson, Jones and Scott. Allamake, Buchanan, Cedar, Dubuque, Fayette, Linn, Muscatine and Winneshiek were designated as contiguous disaster counties.
This designation makes family-sized farm operators in primary and contiguous counties eligible to be considered for low-interest emergency loans from the Farm Service Agency.
"This is good news for the family farmers in these counties. The heavy rain and flooding that occurred in June caused a tremendous amount of damage in this area. This funding will help the farmers hurt by this destructive weather," Grassley said.