Assistance program
Emergency Livestock Relief Program
$1.7 Billion committed in FY2022–FY2026
- Agency
- Farm Service Agency, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 10.148
- What it does
- The Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) provides direct financial assistance to livestock producers for losses incurred because of qualifying drought or wildfire in calendar year 2021. Phase 1 provided assistance to eligible livestock producers who faced increased supplemental feed costs resulting from forage losses whose data was on file with FSA due to their participation in the 2021 Livestock Forage Disaster Program. Phase 2 will provide additional assistance to Phase 1 producers who suffered additional eligible losses to winter grazing due to the severe impact drought and wildfires caused during the grazing period in calendar year 2021 that were not covered by Phase 1.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Eligible livestock producers for ELRP are producers with an approved 2021 LFP application. Applicants must be a citizen of the United States; resident alien; partnership of U.S. citizens of or resident aliens; corporation, limited liability company, or other organizational structure organized under State law solely owned by U.S. citizens or resident aliens; or Indian Tribe or Tribal organization. Applicants are not subject to an average adjusted gross income limit of $900,000.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 117-43
- Program site
- https://www.farmers.gov/ ↗
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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