Disaster Resources
Designed to provide resources for Native American farmers and ranchers contending with natural disasters and other impacts to their operations, this effort was initiated by the Technical Assistance Network and coordinated among all IAC programs.
CROPS
Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP)
NAP provides financial assistance to producers of non-insurable crops when low yields, loss of inventory, or prevented planting occur due to natural disasters.
TAP provides financial assistance to eligible orchardists and nursery tree growers to replant or rehabilitate eligible trees, bushes, and vines lost by natural disasters.
LIVESTOCK
Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP)
LFP provides financial assistance to eligible livestock owners who have covered livestock and who are also producers of grazed forage crop acreage that have suffered a loss of grazed forage due to qualifying drought during the normal grazing period for the county.
Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)
LIP provides benefits to eligible livestock owners for livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality caused by eligible loss conditions, including adverse weather, disease, and attacks by wolves and avian predators. LIP also provides assistance to owners that must sell livestock at a reduced price due to an injury from an eligible loss condition.
Livestock Risk Protection Fed Cattle (LRP - Fed Cattle)
LRP-Fed Cattle is designed to insure against declining market prices.
CONSERVATION
Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)
ECP provides emergency funding and technical assistance to farms and ranchers to rehabilitate farmland and conservation structures damaged by natural disasters and implement emergency water conservation measures in periods of severe drought.
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE
Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP)
ELAP provides financial assistance to producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish for losses due to disease, certain adverse weather events, or loss conditions, including blizzards and wildfires.
Provides emergency loans to help producers recover from production and physical losses due to drought, flooding, other natural disasters, or quarantine.
Emergency Relief Program Phase 2 (ERP)
ERP Phase 2 provides direct financial assistance to producers who suffered an eligible revenue loss in the applicable disaster year (calendar year 2020 & 2021), compared to the benchmark year.
Pandemic Assistance Revenue Program (PARP)
ERP Phase 2 provides direct financial assistance to producers who suffered an eligible revenue loss in the applicable disaster year (calendar year 2020 & 2021), compared to the benchmark year.
OTHER
Risk Management Agency Agent Locator
RMA Agent Locator provides information about insurance agents. All data is provided by approved insurance providers operating under a reinsurance agreement with the Risk Management Agency.
USDA - What is the U.S. Drought Monitor?
An online document that assists agriculture producers recover from drought and other natural disasters. To be eligible for FSA drought assistance, you must operate in a county experiencing at least 8 consecutive weeks of a D2 Drought classification.
