USDA: Disaster Help Now Available Through ELAP

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.  Those payments are now available, and are part of a broader USDA effort to help producers recover from an active hurricane and wildfire season.

"From Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, through the South, the Southwest, California and the Great Plains, American agriculture was devastated by natural disasters in 2017,” said Bill Northey, Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation. “The Trump Administration is moving quickly to distribute financial assistance to help producers recover and rebuild.  It is important to get this help to producers in time for the spring planting season.”

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