Assistance for Agriculture Businesses

Disasters bring unique challenges for agriculture businesses. Explore resources available for livestock, farms, and forest land industries.

Check with your state and local government to see what additional resources may be available in your area.

Livestock and Poultry

Crops

Farm Loans

Farm and Forest Land Damage

Provides benefits to livestock owners and contract growers for livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality caused by eligible loss conditions including eligible adverse weather. Animals injured by the hurricane or related weather event that are sold within 30 days of the disaster event at a reduced rate may also qualify for LIP assistance.

Assists with grazing losses due to hurricanes and flooding eligible on affected acres and assistance for purchased and produced feed losses due to hurricanes (hay bales, stacked hay, corn, silage, etc.). Feed purchases above normal due to hurricanes are eligible for ELAP assistance. ELAP is also available to assist with above normal costs to transport livestock to feed and/or transportation of feed/forage to livestock and above normal costs associated with water hauling.

Emergency haying is authorized for up to 60 calendar days and emergency grazing of CRP is authorized for up to 90 calendar days in counties with a primary or contiguous disaster designation due to a named storm.

Provides technical and financial assistance to producers to help with immediate needs and long-term support to help recover from natural disasters and conserve water resources. The program can assist with restoring livestock infrastructure and emergency animal mortality disposal.

Provides loans to help producers recover from production and physical losses due to drought, flooding, other natural disasters, or quarantine by animal quarantine laws or imposed by the Secretary
under the Plant Protection Act.

Provides producers who have existing direct loans with FSA who are unable to make the scheduled payments to move up to one full year’s payment to the end of the loan. Assistance is available in counties, or contiguous counties, who have been designated as emergencies by the President, Secretary or FSA Administrator.

Provides funding and technical assistance for farmers and ranchers to restore farmland damaged by natural disasters such as grading, shaping or leveling land, removing debris, restoring fences and conservation structures like terraces and waterways.

Provides funding to restore privately owned forests damaged by natural disasters. Assistance helps landowners carry out emergency measures to restore forest health on land damaged by floods, hurricanes or other natural disasters, including removing debris, repairing forestland roads and replacing fence.

Provides technical and financial assistance to producers to help with immediate needs and long-term support to help recover from natural disasters and conserve water resources. The program can assist with land rehabilitation and debris removal.