Last year was difficult for farmers in the Garden State.
A drought watch turned into a drought warning and many farmers were forced to spend a lot of money to irrigate their regular crops, while field crops in many locations were damaged.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is offering farmers in four New Jersey counties — Burlington, Hunterdon, Mercer and Warren — low-interest disaster assistance loans to cover field crop losses between May and December of last year.
“This would cover things like field corn, soybeans, hay, wheat, anything where you don’t have irrigation happening because the commodity values aren’t such that the grower can justify irrigation,” said Tom Beaver, the director of the division of marketing and development for the New Jersey Department of Agriculture.
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