USDA announces 2009 DCP signup
      Don 'Riggs, executive director for USDA's Farm Service Agency in Lampasas/Burnet County, announced that enrollment for the 2009 Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program for farms with base acres continues online and at local USDA service centers until June 1, 2009.
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Emergency farm loan applications are accepted
      Applications for emergency farm loans for losses caused by drought that occurred on June 1, 2008, and continuing are being accepted at the Farm Service Agency office in Hamilton County, said D. Dale Vann Sr., farm loan manager.
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