The Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA), provides financial assistance to producers of non-insurable crops to protect against natural disasters that result in lower yields or crop losses, or prevents crop planting.

September 30th, 2024 is the deadline for the 2025 Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP).  Contact Steven Yazzie, FSA, for details. EMail:  steven.yazzie@usda.gov

LFP Provides assistance to eligible livestock owners and contract growers who have covered livestock and who are also producers of grazed forage crop acreage (native and improved pastureland with permanent vegetive cover that have suffered a loss of grazed forage due to a qualifying drought during the normal grazing period for the county.

How to apply- Producers can apply to receive LFP assistance at local FSA Service Centers. The LFP application period ends 30 calendar days after the end of the calendar year in which the grazing loss occurred.

Livestock owners or contract growers need to fillout and sign form CCC-941 -  Adjusted Gross Income Certification Consent (AGI's). If signing up under an entity, the appplicant(s) will need to fill out one AGI for the entity and one AGI for each individual menber of the entity.

 LIP Provides assistance to eligible livestock owners or contract growers for livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality caused by an eligible adverse weather event, eligible disease, and attacked by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or protected by law, including wolves and avian predators. In addition, LIP provides assistance to eligible livestock owners that must sell livestock at a reduced price because of an injury from an eligible loss condition.

How to apply- Producers can apply to receive LIP assistance at local FSA Service Centers. Please file a notice of loss within 30 days after the loss is apparent. The LIP application period ends 60 days after the calendar year in which the eligible loss condition occurred.

ELAP Provides assistance for the following: Livestock Feed and grazing losses that are not due to drought or wildfires on federally managed lands; Losses resulting from the additional cost of transporting feed and/or water to livestock due to an eligible drought. Losses resulting from the additional cost associated with gathering livestock for treatment and inspection related to cattle tick fever. *Drought and wildfire on federally managed land are not eligible adverse weather or loss conditions for livestock grazing losses under ELAP. These conditions are covered by the Livestock Forage Program (LFP).

How to apply-Producers can apply to receive ELAP assistance at local FSA Service Centers. Please file a notice of loss within 30 days after the loss is apparent. The ELAP application period closes December 31 of each calendar year.

ECP helps farmers and ranchers to repair damage to farmlands caused by natural disasters and to help put in place methods for water conservation during severe drought. 

The ECP does this by giving ranchers and farmers funding and assistance to repair the damaged farmland or to install methods for water conservation.

The Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP) provides technical and financial assistance to owners of nonindustrial private forestland whose forestland was damaged by a qualifying natural disaster event.