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Shellfish growers who suffer losses from a qualifying natural disaster event may be eligible for assistance through the Farm Service Agency.

USDA has made several updates to different conservation, livestock, and crop disaster assistance programs to give more farmers, ranchers, and tribes the opportunity to access them.  Ease of access is especially important after natural disasters.  Th...

Earlier this year, USDA announced assistance for eligible livestock producers impacted by drought associated feed transportation costs. FSA Administrator, Zach Ducheneaux, said the assistance is connected to ELAP, and now producers also have an online feed transportation producer tool ...

The drought here in the west is on the mind of the Ag Secretary. "Could lead potentially to people having to sell their herds because they can't simply afford the cost of maintaining them." Tom Vilsack recently to announced the expansion of the Emergency Livestock Assistance Program , specifically to help producers that need assistance with feed ...

In response to the severe drought conditions across the west, as well as the Great Plains, the USDA says it plans to help cover the cost of transporting feed for livestock that rely on grazing. USDA will update the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP) to immediately cover feed transportation costs for drought-impacted ranchers ...

The February storms were very hard on producers across the Northwest, especially livestock producers.  Cattle producers that lost animals during last month’s storm have options to try and offset their losses, but time is running out.   S...

The USDA is reminding producers across Washington that experienced losses from natural disasters in 2017 and 2018 of upcoming assistance application deadlines.  Available program include the Tree Assistance Program, ELAP and Livestock Indemnity Program.  ...

The USDA will once against accept disaster assistance program applications, beginning on June 4.  Eligible producers include those who’ve suffered livestock losses, as well as the loss of honeybees, farm-raised fish, as well as other types of losses because of natural disasters.  The FSA is re...

The USDA announced Tuesday the availability of $34 million to help producers recover from 2017 natural disasters through the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-raised Fish Program, better known as ELAP.  The program covers losses not covered by other USDA disaster assistance programs.  Th...

Producers have until the end of the month to file loss claims under the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish, or ELAP Program. Eligible livestock losses include grazing losses not covered under the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP), loss of purchased feed and/or mechanically harvested feed due to an eligible adverse weather event, additional cost of transporting