USDA has announced that producers who were approved through the 2021 Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) for forage losses due to severe drought or wildfire will also receive emergency aid through the Farm Service Agency’s new Emergency Livestock Relief Program. Payments will cover increases in supplemental feed costs in 2021.
“Producers of grazing livestock experienced catastrophic losses of available forage as well as higher costs for supplemental feed in 2021,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in a press release.
“Unfortunately, the conditions driving these losses have not improved for many, and have even worsened for some, as drought spreads across the U.S.”
To be eligible for the new payments, in addition to being approved for 2021 LFP, producers must have suffered grazing losses in 2021 in a county rated by the Drought Monitor as having D2 drought for eight consecutive weeks or D3 or higher drought. For more information, visit fsa.usda.gov.
