A nonprofit organization is making emergency loans available to farmers in part of western Massachusetts who suffered losses due to the weather this summer.
Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture is offering no-interest loans up to $10,000 to growers who lost crops or had reduced yields.
Phil Korman, CISA’s executive director, said parts of the region had rainfall totals 75 percent above average in July and August.
" It has varied depending on the farms, but what we have consistently heard this has been in some ways a very hard season for farmers," said Korman.
The loans are intended to help farmers who are squeezed for cash make it through to the next growing season.
It is the fifth time revolving loans have been offered from the emergency fund since it was launched after Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.
