Nearly 1,250 farmers in South Carolina will get more than $35 million in aid for their losses during last October’s massive floods.
The Department of Agriculture said in a news release Thursday that 88 farmers will receive the maximum award of $100,000, while the smallest amount approved was $164.
The Legislature approved the aid this year over Gov. Nikki Haley’s veto. It supplements crop insurance and covers 20 percent of the losses from October’s floods and subsequent months of waterlogged fields.
Lawmakers set aside $40 million, but farmers claimed $35.5 million.
Farmers in Orangeburg County will get the most help at $4.4 million. At least $1 million in aid is going to farmers in nine other counties – Bamberg, Calhoun, Clarendon, Darlington, Florence, Horry, Lee, Sumter and Williamsburg.
Topics Trends Flood Agribusiness
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