Assistance program
Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish Program
$1.8 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Farm Service Agency, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 10.110
- What it does
- ELAP provides financial assistance to eligible producers of livestock, honeybees and farm-raised fish for losses due to disease, certain adverse weather events or loss conditions, including blizzards and wildfires, as determined by the Secretary. ELAP assistance is provided for losses not covered by other disaster assistance programs authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill, such as losses not covered by the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) and the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP).
- Who benefits
- Eligible producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish will receive the ultimate benefits from ELAP. An eligible livestock producer, honeybee producer, and eligible farm-raised fish producer may receive payments for eligible losses based on a national payment rate.
- Who applies
- To be eligible for benefits, an individual or legal entity must be a citizen of the United States (U.S.); Resident alien; Partnership of citizens of the U.S.; or Corporation, limited liability corporation, other farm organizational structure organized under State law, or Indian tribe or tribal organization. The eligible applicant must have legal ownership of the livestock, honeybees, or farm-raised fish on the day the loss occurs and must be a producer or contract grower of livestock, honeybee, or farm-raised fish that assumes the production and market risks associated with the agricultural production of crops or livestock on a farm and that meets the requirements to receive ELAP payments. An eligible producer who certifies they are socially disadvantaged, limited resource, or beginning or veteran farmer or rancher, will have their payments for losses under ELAP based on a national payment factor of 90 percent.
- Authorized by
- 7 U.S.C. § 9081
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments