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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated 24 counties in Missouri as primary natural disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by excessive rainfall and flooding that occurred from April 24, 2017, through May 11, 2017. Those counties are:

Bollinger, Jasper, Pemiscot, Butler, Jefferson, Phelps, Cape Girardeau, Laclede, Pulaski, Crawford, Madison, Ripley, Dunklin, Maries, Ste. Genevieve, Franklin, Miller, St. Louis, Gasconade, Montgomery, Stoddard, Iron, Osage, and Wayne.

Farmers and ranchers in the following counties in Missouri also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous.

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