Crops and Plants
Consider options to prepare for and recover from losses of crops, trees, bushes, and vines.
Tree Assistance Program
The Tree Assistance Program (TAP) helps orchardists and nursery tree growers replant or rehabilitate eligible trees, bushes, and vines damaged by natural disasters and eligible plant disease.
Animals and Livestock
Find financial assistance for livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish losses due to qualifying natural disasters and events.
Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish
The Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-raised Fish Program (ELAP) provides financial assistance to eligible producers for livestock, honeybee, and farm-raised fish losses – such as death, feed, grazing, and associated transportation costs – due to disease and certain adverse weather events or loss conditions. The program addresses losses not covered by other USDA disaster assistance programs.
Emergency Livestock Relief Program
Livestock producers who have approved applications through the 2021 Livestock Forage Disaster Program for forage losses due to severe drought or wildfire received emergency relief payments to compensate for increases in supplemental feed costs through the Farm Service Agency’s new Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP).
Livestock Forage Disaster Program
The Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) provides compensation to eligible livestock producers who have suffered grazing losses on land that is native or improved pastureland with permanent vegetative cover or is planted specifically for grazing. The grazing losses must be due to a qualifying drought condition or fire on federally-managed land during the normal grazing period for a county.
Livestock Indemnity Program
The Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) provides benefits to livestock owners and contract growers who experience livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality caused by specific adverse weather, disease, or animal attacks.
Conservation
Find assistance to repair damages caused by natural disasters such as severe erosion, debris-clogged waterways, downed timber, damaged or destroyed farm structures, repeat flooding, or emergency measures to cope with severe drought.
Conservation Reserve Program – Emergency Haying and Grazing
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) enables producers to enter into 10-15 year contracts for agreeing to remove environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and to plant species that improve environmental health and quality. While not established specifically for disaster response, emergency haying and grazing may be allowed by USDA Farm Service Agency to provide relief to livestock producers in areas affected by a severe drought or similar natural disaster.
Learn more about Emergency Haying and Grazing
Emergency Conservation Program
The Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) provides funding for farmers and ranchers to rehabilitate farmland, replace or repair fences damagedby natural disasters and to carry out emergency water conservation measures during periods of severe drought.
Emergency Forest Restoration Program
The Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP) offers financial payments to eligible private forest landowners who restore forests damaged by natural disasters or insect and disease infestations.
Environmental Quality Incentives Program
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)provides agricultural producers with financial resources and one-on-one help to plan and implement improvements on the land. While not established specifically for disaster response, the program can assist with immediate recovery needs and provide long-term support to help conserve water resources, reduce wind erosion on drought-impacted fields, improve livestock access to water, recover from natural disasters like wildfires, and more.
Emergency Watershed Protection Program
The Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program – withrecovery and floodplain easem*nt options – provides personalized advice and financial assistance to relieve imminent threats to life and property caused by floods, fires, windstorms, and other natural disasters that impair a watershed.
Agricultural Conservation Easem*nt Program – Wetland Reserve Easem*nt
The Agricultural Conservation Easem*nt Program (ACEP)– Wetland Reserve Easem*nt provides management flexibility to producers affected by drought by offering haying or grazing of easem*nt areas where the activity is consistent with conservation of wildlife habitat and wetlands. The Wetland Reserve Easem*nt is a voluntary program that purchases easem*nts from landowners in exchange for their commitment to maintain areas as wetlands.
Price Support
There are many helpful agricultural programs focused on producer needs related to market losses.
Dairy Indemnity Payment Program
The Dairy Indemnity Payment Program (DIPP) provides payments to dairy producers when a public regulatory agency directs them to remove their raw milk from the commercial market because it has been contaminated by pesticides and other residues.
Loan Deficiency Payments
Loan Deficiency Payments (LDPs) are payments made to producers who, although eligible to obtain a CCC loan, agree to forgo the loan in return for a payment on the eligible commodity.
Reimbursable Transportation Cost Program
The Reimbursem*nt Transportation Cost Payment Program (RTCP) for geographically disadvantaged farmers and ranchers reimburses geographically disadvantaged producers with a portion of the cost to transport agricultural commodities or inputs used to produce an agricultural commodity.
Emergency Assistance
Find additional USDA disaster assistance options for farmers, ranchers, foresters, and other producers who are currently enrolled in USDA Farm Service Agency and Natural Resources Conservation Service programs.
Emergency Loan Program
The Emergency Loan Program provides loans to help producers recover from production and physical losses due to drought, flooding, other natural disasters, or quarantine. Loans can help producers replace essential property, purchase inputs like livestock, equipment, feed and seed, cover family living expenses or refinance farm-related debts and other needs.
Secretarial natural disaster designations allow FSA to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans.
Learn more about Emergency Farm Loans
Emergency Relief Program
To help agricultural producers offset the impacts of natural disasters in 2020 and 2021, Congress included emergency relief funding in theExtending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act(P.L. 117-43).
Learn more about Emergency Relief Program
Disaster Set-Aside Program
The Disaster Set-Aside Program applies specifically to producers who have existing direct loans with the USDA Farm Service Agency and need to “set-aside” scheduled payments temporarily due to designated natural disasters.
Helping Farmers Address Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
USDA is working with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other agencies across the government to develop science-based tools, guidance, and information that you can use, whether your operations have been impacted by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), you’re looking to prevent exposure, or you just want to stay informed.
Learn more about how USDA is helping to address PFAS
