Livestock Forage Disaster Program Updated:06/2022

The Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) provides payments to:

  • Eligible livestock owners and contract growers who have covered livestock and
  • Who are also producers of grazed forage crop acreage (native and improved pasture land with permanent vegetative cover
  • Or certain crops planted specifically for grazing) that have suffered a loss of grazed forage due to a qualifying drought during the normal grazing period for the county.

LFP also provides payments to:

  • Eligible livestock owners or contract growers that have covered livestock and
  • Who are also producers of grazed forage crop acreage on rangeland managed by a federal agency if, the eligible livestock producer is prohibited by the federal agency from grazing the normal permitted livestock on the managed rangeland due to a qualifying fire. The qualifying drought and qualifying grazing losses, and/or notification of prohibition to graze Federal land due t
 

Contact Livestock Forage Disaster Program

USDA Farm Service Agency
1400 Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, DC  20250

Service Area

National Program