{"id":573011,"date":"2026-04-09T02:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573011\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:38:10","slug":"usda-declares-extreme-drought-in-inyo-county-3-nevada-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573011\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA declares extreme drought in Inyo County, 3 Nevada counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">INYO COUNTY, California (KOLO) &#8211; The USDA has declared natural disaster areas in Inyo County, as well as three counties in Nevada, over what they say is an extreme drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The agency says the disaster area encompasses areas in the states of California, Nevada and Arizona, and includes Clark, Esmeralda, and Nye counties in Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The declaration allows the USDA and the Farm Service Agency to extend emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The loans can be used to meet recovery needs, such as replacing essential items, reorganizing farming operations, and refinancing debts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The deadline to apply for such relief is Dec. 7. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KOLO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INYO COUNTY, California (KOLO) &#8211; The USDA has declared natural disaster areas in Inyo County, as well as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2356,15229,192,1058,79,12839],"class_list":["post-573011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-california","tag-drought","tag-environment","tag-nevada","tag-science","tag-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}