Rule 29 May 2025 agriculture, usda, financial assistance, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, livestock, dairy products, pesticides and pests, acreage allotments, indemnity payments, wildfire, drought, emergency program

🐄Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) for 2023 and 2024

The Secretary of Agriculture is issuing this rule to implement the Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) 2023 and 2024, which provides payments to eligible livestock producers for losses due to qualifying drought and qualifying wildfire occurring in calendar years 2023 and 2024. This rule specifies the administrative provisions, eligibility requirements, and payment calculation for ELRP 2023 and 2024. The Farm Service Agency (FSA) will calculate payments using data already submitted to FSA by Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) participants; therefore, producers are not required to file an additional application to receive ELRP 2023 and 2024 payments.

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Rule 29 May 2025 compliance, agriculture, regulation, administrative practice and procedure, wildlife, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, water resources, livestock, dairy products, farming, pesticides and pests, soil conservation, acreage allotments, indemnity payments, meat and meat products, fsa, grant programs-natural resources, grant programs-agriculture, price support programs

🌾Removal of Obsolete Agriculture Regulations by FSA

FSA is in the process of reviewing all regulations within its purview to reduce regulatory burdens and costs. Pursuant to this review, FSA has identified the following obsolete, unnecessary, and outdated provisions. FSA is removing these provisions to streamline and clarify the dictates of FSA regulations. The changes in this rule will have no impact on past or present FSA customers.

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Rule 13 May 2025 agriculture, regulations, usda, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, dairy products, pesticides and pests, acreage allotments, indemnity payments, farm service agency, crop assistance

🌾Removal of Obsolete Crop Assistance Program Regulations

The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is updating our regulations to remove the FSA Crop Assistance Program (CAP), which is obsolete. The changes in this rule will have no impacts on past or present FSA customers.

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Financial Assistance, Compliance, Business Incentives 17 Jan 2025 agriculture, usda, administrative practice and procedure, financial assistance, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, disaster assistance, livestock, bees, dairy products, fruits, seafood, nursery stock

🌾Analysis of Supplemental Agricultural Assistance Programs Regulations

This rule makes discretionary changes to simplify and streamline deadlines for the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP), the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP), and the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP). It also makes changes to clarify ELAP provisions for assistance for transportation of livestock feed.

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