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Drought and blizzard aid on fast track
Livestock disaster aid is on the fast track now that the new farm bill is in place and USDA Under Secretary Michael Scuse says that will help farmers in the midst and the aftermath of extreme weather.
He says, “(The drought) is putting a terrible strain on the resources for the livestock producers in California and the dairies that are in California as well, so what we’re doing through the Livestock Forage Program is to help provide assistance and make up for the loss in the food supply that they’ve had for the livestock out there. We’ll be providing assistance for up to five months for those losses.”
South Dakota and Nebraska livestock producers who suffered losses in the Atlas blizzard of last October will soon be able to apply for the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP), Scuse says, “The losses were tens of thousands of animals. The Farm Bill and the Livestock Indemnity Program will cover 75% of the losses of those livestock.”
Scuse says there will be information coming soon about the appropriate documentation farmers will need to bring into their local Farm Service Agency Offices to apply for the livestock aid which will be retroactive to October 2011. The expected date when farmers and ranchers may begin to apply for the assistance is April 15, 2014.
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Tags: Ag Weather, Disaster Aid, Farm Bill, Livestock, USDA
So what ever happened with assistance from the 2012 Nebraska drought or was that forgotten about because I haven’t forgot. I am still feeling the aftermath of it. I sure hope someone reads this and realizes that it should’t be forgotten and there should be some assistance. Just to jog some memory the hay prices were over $200 a ton and corn was $7.50 a bushel but there was dry land corn that did zero and you were lucky to get a 1/3 of the hay crop. So try to feed your livestock with them prices. So does the talk of California getting assistance bother me (yes) because I and many others were forgotten.