Agricultural and Food Policy
 Agri Outlook Radio
Number 193
Policy: Part 5 of 8 - Basic Provisions of the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) (2:19 minutes)
Audio/Video Script:
Robert Coats, Ph.D.
Extension Economist and Professor
University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture
One of the 2008 Farm Bill’s Five New Supplemental Agricultural Disaster
Assistance Programs is the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP).
Basic Provisions of the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) are as
follows:
The Livestock Disaster Program will be available to eligible livestock
producers who suffered grazing losses for eligible livestock because of:
- Drought, on land that is either of the following:
- Native or improved pastureland with permanent
vegetative cover, and
- Planted to a crop specifically for providing grazing
- Fire, on rangeland managed by a Federal agency if the
eligible livestock producer is prohibited from grazing the normal permitted livestock on the managed
rangeland.
To be eligible for the Livestock Disaster Program LFP, the producer must have
purchased or obtained the following for the grazing land incurring the losses
for which assistance is being requested:
- A policy or plan of insurance under the Federal Crop
Insurance Act, including pilot programs such as the Pasture, Rangeland, Forage Program
- Noninsured Disaster Assistance NAP
coverage by filing the required paperwork, and paying the administrative
fee by the applicable State filing deadline.
An eligible livestock producer that suffered 2008 calendar year grazing
losses on grazing land and did not meet this requirement may have this provision
waived if the producer pays a fee in an amount applicable to the noninsured crop
disaster assistance program fee or catastrophic risk protection plan fee by no
later than September 16, 2008.
This has been Robert Coats Extension Economist University of Arkansas
Division of Agriculture.
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