Source: Christine S. Carroll, RICHMOND COUNTY DAILY JOURNAL, 8/9/17


Area peach growers who lost 35 percent of their crops during a three-day freeze last March may be eligible for federally financed emergency loans. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, a native of the “peach state” of Georgia, this week declared Richmond and six neighboring counties eligible for disaster-assistance loans as a result of a “frost and freeze” March 16-18. Perdue named Richmond the “primary disaster county.”

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