MANHATTAN – Adrian J. Polansky, state executive director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Kansas announced this week that emergency haying of Conservation Reserve Program acreage has been approved for Elk, Ellsworth, Greenwood, Scott, Sumner, Wilson and Woodson counties; and CRP emergency grazing has been approved for Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Elk, Greely, Greenwood, Labette, Lyon, Montgomery, Morris, Neosho, Sedgwick, Sumner, Wilson and Woodson counties. “We are extremely concerned how the intensifying and expanding drought conditions are impacting livestock producers,” said Polansky. “FSA is authorizing CRP haying and grazing options to provide assistance to mitigate the severity of drought losses and rising feed costs for Kansas livestock producers.”