The Departments of Agriculture and Transportation are providing federal relief for parts of Iowa damaged by spring flooding.
USDA announced Monday that Farm Service Agency offices in six Southwest Iowa counties are now accepting applications for the Emergency Conservation Program.
Last week, FSA also announced that emergency grazing use of Conservation Reserve Program acres is approved in Iowa through May 14, 2019.
Similar measures have been approved for Nebraska producers.
Meanwhile, the Department of Transportation has made $9 million of emergency quick release funds immediately available from the Federal Highway Administration.
The funds are to help Iowa repair road damages caused by flooding in Iowa. Requests for emergency relief funding for transportation repairs have reached approximately $90 million.
The “Quick Release” funds are intended as a down payment on the costs of short-term repairs while further damage assessment for long-term repairs take place.
A major thoroughfare that connects Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska, Interstate 29, remains closed primarily due to extensive flood damages in Iowa.