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Fifteen S.D. counties added to drought disaster list

The USDA designated 15 counties in South Dakota as primary natural disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by drought.  The primary disaster counties are: Brown, Hand, Pennington, Brule, Jerauld, Stanley, Buffalo, Lyman, Tripp, Haakon, Meade, Ziebach, Beadle, Hughes and Jones.

Farmers and ranchers in the following counties in South Dakota also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous: Aurora, Custer, Gregory, Lawrence, Perkins, Day, McPherson, Sanborn, Butte, Dewey, Hyde, Marshall, Spink, Charles Mix, Edmunds, Jackson, Mellette, Sully, Corson, Faulk, Oglala Lakota, Todd, Clark, Kingsbury and Stanley.

Farmers and ranchers in the following counties in Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyoming also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous. Those counties are:
Nebraska: Cherry and Keya Paha
North Dakota: Dickey and Sargent
Wyoming: Weston