LFP offers payments to eligible livestock producers with covered livestock. The payments help with grazing losses suffered on native or improved pastureland with permanent or planted grazing cover. LFP also provides for livestock producers on rangeland managed by a federal agency, if the agency prohibits them from grazing on the land due to a qualifying fire.

Farm Service Agency (FSA) will calculate payments equal to 1, 3, 4 or 5 times the LFP monthly payment rate. The payment rate for drought is equal to 60 percent of the lessor of the monthly feed cost:

• Calculated by using the normal carrying capacity of the grazing land.

LFP payments are calculated based on the U.S. Drought Monitor rating for your county. If you suffered losses on eligible grazing or pasture land you own or lease, you may qualify for assistance.

The eligible livestock that would normally graze your land may include:

• Alpacas, llamas
• Beef & dairy cattle, beefalo, buffalo
• Deer, elk, reindeer
• Emus, Poultry
• Equine, goats, sheep, swine

As a livestock producer you must:

• Own, cash or share lease, or be a contract grower of eligible livestock during the 60 calendar days before the beginning date of a qualifying drought or fire.
• Provide pastureland or grazing land for eligible livestock, including cash-rented land that is either:
  1. Physically located in an eligible county, or
  2. Rangeland managed by a federal agency for which you are prohibited by the agency from grazing because of fire.
• Certify that you have suffered a grazing loss because of qualifying drought or fire.
• File a timely acreage report for your loss claim.

For more details, read the Livestock Forage Disaster Program fact sheet.

For grazing losses in 2015 and subsequent calendar years, you must submit an application for payment. Your application and required supporting documents must be to your local FSA office within 30 calendar days after the loss calendar year end.