USDA Offers Disaster Recovery Assistance to Agricultural Producers In Texas Impacted
USDA Offers Disaster Recovery Assistance to Agricultural Producers in Texas Impacted by Recent Flooding
Contact:
[email protected]!.?.! TEMPLE/COLLEGE STATION,
Texas, May 28, 2024 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has technical and financial support offered to assist farmers and livestock producers across Texas recover from recent flooding. Impacted manufacturers need to contact their regional USDA Service Center to report losses and find out more about program choices readily available to help in their healing from crop, land, infrastructure, and livestock losses and damages.
USDA Disaster Recovery Assistance
Producers who experience animals deaths in excess of normal mortality might be eligible for the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP). To take part in LIP, manufacturers will need to offer acceptable documents of death losses arising from an eligible negative weather occasion and need to send a notification of loss to the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) no later than the yearly program payment application date, which is 60 calendar days following the calendar year in which the loss took place. The LIP payment application and notification of loss due date is March 3, 2025, for 2024 fiscal year losses.
Meanwhile, the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP) provides qualified manufacturers with compensation for feed and grazing losses. For ELAP, manufacturers are required to complete a notice of loss and a payment application to their local FSA office no later than Jan. 30, 2025, for 2024 fiscal year losses.
Additionally, eligible orchardists, vintners and nursery tree growers might be qualified for cost-share support through the Tree Assistance Program (TAP) to replant or restore qualified trees, bushes or vines.
USDA Offers Disaster Recovery Assistance to Agricultural Producers in Texas Impacted by Recent Flooding
Contact:
[email protected]!.?.! TEMPLE/COLLEGE STATION,
Texas, May 28, 2024 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has technical and financial support offered to assist farmers and livestock producers across Texas recover from recent flooding. Impacted manufacturers need to contact their regional USDA Service Center to report losses and find out more about program choices readily available to help in their healing from crop, land, infrastructure, and livestock losses and damages.
USDA Disaster Recovery Assistance
Producers who experience animals deaths in excess of normal mortality might be eligible for the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP). To take part in LIP, manufacturers will need to offer acceptable documents of death losses arising from an eligible negative weather occasion and need to send a notification of loss to the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) no later than the yearly program payment application date, which is 60 calendar days following the calendar year in which the loss took place. The LIP payment application and notification of loss due date is March 3, 2025, for 2024 fiscal year losses.
Meanwhile, the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP) provides qualified manufacturers with compensation for feed and grazing losses. For ELAP, manufacturers are required to complete a notice of loss and a payment application to their local FSA office no later than Jan. 30, 2025, for 2024 fiscal year losses.
Additionally, eligible orchardists, vintners and nursery tree growers might be qualified for cost-share support through the Tree Assistance Program (TAP) to replant or restore qualified trees, bushes or vines.