Posts Tagged: assistance
ANR's Role in Conservation
Yet another incredible week of weather! Blizzards last week in southern California and the Sierra...
Loss of Thomas Meixner
Colleagues,
Many of us at UC Riverside and around UC ANR are grieving the loss of Thomas Meixner, who was well-known, well-liked and highly respected for his expertise in water resources. Before joining the faculty at University of Arizona College of Science in 2005, Meixner was an assistant professor in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at UC Riverside for five years. We send our deepest sympathies to his grieving family, friends and colleagues.
The circumstances of his death on campus are horrifying, in addition to other troubling events going on in the world. Please remember that there are resources available to help you in times of crisis. Contact the Academic and Staff Assistance Program for confidential counseling services.
Take care of yourself and warmest regards,
Glenda
USDA Updates Pandemic Assistance for Livestock, Poultry Contract Producers and Specialty Crop Growers
This is another press release from USDA that provides updates to the Covid19 pandemic assistance program for livestock, poultry contract producers and specialty crop growers.
USDA Fire Loss Programs
USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) offers disaster assistance and low-interest loan programs to assist agricultural producers in their recovery efforts following wildfires or other qualifying natural disasters. Available programs and loans include:
- Non-Insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)
- - provides financial assistance to producers of non-insurable crops when low yields, loss of inventory, or prevented planting occur due to natural disasters including excessive wind and qualifying drought (includes native grass for grazing). Eligible producers must have purchased NAP coverage for 2017 crops. A notice of loss must be filed within 15 calendar days of when the loss is apparent or 15 calendar days after the normal harvest date.
- Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)
- - offers payments to eligible producers for livestock death losses in excess of normal mortality due to adverse weather. Eligible losses may include those determined by FSA to have been caused by hurricanes, floods, blizzards, wildfires, tropical storms, tornados lightning, extreme heat, and extreme cold. Producers will be required to provide verifiable documentation of death losses resulting from an eligible adverse weather event and must submit a notice of loss to their local FSA office within 30 calendar days of when the loss of livestock is apparent.
- Tree Assistance Program (TAP)
- – provides assistance to eligible orchardists and nursery tree growers for qualifying tree, shrub and vine losses due to natural disasters including excessive wind and qualifying drought.
- Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP)
- - provides emergency relief for losses due to feed or water shortages, disease, adverse weather, or other conditions, which are not adequately addressed by other disaster programs. ELAP covers physically damaged or destroyed livestock feed that was purchased or mechanically harvested forage or feedstuffs intended for use as feed for the producer's eligible livestock. In order to be considered eligible, harvested forage must be baled; forage that is only cut, raked or windrowed is not eligible. ELAP also covers up to 150 lost grazing days in instances when a producer has been forced to remove livestock from a grazing pasture due to wildfire and for beekeepers, ELAP covers beehive losses (the physical structure) in instances where the hive has been destroyed by a natural disaster including flooding, high winds and tornadoes. Producers must submit a notice of loss to their local FSA office within 30 calendar days of when the loss is apparent.
- Emergency Loan Program
- – available to producers with agriculture operations located in a county under a primary or contiguous Presidential or Secretarial disaster designation. These low interest loans help producers recover from production and physical losses.
- Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)
- - provides emergency funding for farmers and ranchers to rehabilitate land severely damaged by natural disasters; includes fence loss.
- HayNet
- - is an Internet-based Hay and Grazing Net Ad Service allowing farmers and ranchers to share ‘Need Hay' ads and ‘Have Hay' ads online. Farmers also can use another feature to post advertisements for grazing land, specifically ads announcing the availability of grazing land or ads requesting a need for land to graze. www.fsa.usda.gov/haynet.
www.fsa.usda.gov/disaster
For more information on these programs, visit FSA online at www.fsa.usda.gov.
To find a local FSA office near you, visit
http://offices.usda.gov.
USDA is an equal opportunity lender, provider and employer.
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Fire Disaster Workshop for ALL Ventura/Santa Barbara Producers
The USDA's Farm Service Agency and Natural Resources Conservation Service will have workshops to aid agricultural producers; including cattle, tree, nursery, vegetable, and berry farmers in filing for federal assistance programs. Appointments can be arranged now for filing applications during these workshops.
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