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Virginia’s farm income at harvest time is expected to be down by half because of crop losses due to the drought. And that could mean that 10 percent of the state’s farmers cOuld go out of business, according to S. Mason Carbaugh, Virginia’s commissioner of agriculture and consumer services.
Record-breaking temperatures and below-average rainfall conditions continued throughout July and August, causing severe damage to crops and livestock and forcing the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) to declare 43 localities disaster areas.
Heat and dry conditions most heavily affected an area of 40 counties and three cities from Stafford County south to Southampton County and from Amherst County east to the Eastern Shore.
Farmers in these areas who suffered crop damages to corn, soybeans, milo, vegetables, sorghum, and pastures are now eligible for Five percent FmHA emergency loans. The biggest casualty of the drought in the commonwealth is reported to be the 30-75 percent loss of the
Jobless Rate
Here Below
State Level
The jobless rate here continues to stay below state and national levels.
In August, the unemployment rate here stood at 4.4 per cent, says the Virginia Employment Commission, well below the state rate of 5.4 per cent and the national rate of 7.5 per cent.
90.1%