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Livestock Forage Disaster Program support available, and signup deadline is Jan. 30, 2017.

October 20, 2016

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USDA's Farm Service Agency has announced that livestock producers in 14 Montana counties have until Jan. 30, 2017 to enroll in the 2016 Livestock Forage Disaster Program.

LFP offers compensation to livestock producers in qualifying counties for drought on dryland pasture. Eligible livestock producers must use this ground during the normal grazing period for the county. The 14 counties are Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Fallon, Flathead, Granite, Lewis and Clark, Missoula, Park, Powder River, Powell, Stillwater, Sweet Grass and Teton.

Producers in those counties can apply for 2016 LFP benefits on small grain, native pasture, improved pasture, annual ryegrass or forage sorghum, produced on dryland acres and used for grazing. Irrigated acres used for grazing or aftermath grazing are not eligible under this program. For more information, contact the FSA office in your region.

Livestock producers in Carter County are eligible for four monthly payments. Livestock producers in the following 13 counties are eligible for one monthly payment: Big Horn, Carbon, Fallon, Flathead, Granite, Lewis and Clark, Missoula, Park, Powder River, Powell, Stillwater, Sweet Grass and Teton.

Eligible livestock includes alpacas, beef cattle over 500 pounds, buffalo, beefalo, dairy cattle, deer, elk, emus, equine, goats, llamas, poultry, reindeer, sheep or swine that have been or would have been grazing the eligible grazing land or pastureland during the county’s grazing period. 

Producers must complete an application and provide supporting documentation for 2016 losses by Jan. 30, 2017. Please contact the local FSA office ASAP to schedule an appointment to begin the application process and for questions on FSA programs.  For more information, visit Montana FSA online at www.fsa.usda.gov/mt and www.usda.gov/disaster .

Source: USDA

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