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.
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