United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture is distributing the oral rabies vaccine in parts of Alabama through Oct. 20. The action is a continuation of a decades-long program to reduce raccoon rabies and the associated public health risks from rabies exposures.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency is now accepting applications for the Livestock Forage Disaster Program in 37 Alabama counties. This compensation is meant to help ease grazing losses due to drought on privately owned or cash leased land or fire on federally managed land.

Farmers in Alabama who have been affected by the extreme drought conditions gripping the Southeast are getting some good news from the federal…