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Extension is Point of Contact for Disaster Relief Sign-up
AUBURN, JAN. 10, 2001---At a meeting January 8 in Montgomery, US Senator Jeff Sessions presented a
$5,000,000 check to Department of Agriculture & Industries Commissioner
Charles Bishop to provide disaster relief to cattlemen and certain other
commercial farm animal producers statewide. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System is the contact point for signing up.
The sign-up period will extend from January 18 to February 9, 2001.
Contact your local County Extension office to determine your eligibility
and to sign up for disaster relief.
Nutritional fact sheets for daily feeding programs will also be available
through county Extension offices at the time of sign-up for the eligible
farm animals including:
Brood beef cows
Brood dairy cows
Sheep (ewes only)
Goats (nannies only)
(Source: Dr. Arlie
Powell, Extension state program leader for agriculture, 334
844-5551)
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