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Applicants must sign in or register on the program portal to apply. Questions about the application should be directed to 1-800-435-7352. The application deadline is January 1, 2027.

FDACS Consumer Assistance (1-800-HELP-FLA)

The Florida Block Grant Disaster Relief Program, developed by FDACS in partnership with USDA, provides financial support to help agricultural producers rebuild, restore operations, and return to full production after hurricane losses.



Eligible applicants are agricultural producers whose operations experienced damage or loss during the 2023 or 2024 hurricane seasons.

A lump sum of money for a specific purpose that does not need to be paid back.

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The program covers: Infrastructure — restoration, repair, or replacement of agricultural structures like greenhouses, barns, irrigation systems, and livestock shelters; Market Loss — compensation for specialty crop producers (strawberries, watermelons, blueberries, tomatoes, snap beans, cucumbers, bell peppers, sweet corn); Citrus — economic loss recovery, grove damage, replanting, and infrastructure restoration; and Timber — debris removal, cleanup, and reforestation for landowners with at least 10 contiguous storm-damaged acres. The page states the program will deliver more than $600 million.

Eligible livestock producers who are also producers of grazed forage crop acreage must provide a completed application for payment and required supporting documentation to their FSA office within 30 calendar days after the end of the calendar year in which the grazing loss occurred. 

Contract growers must include a copy of the grower contract and any other supporting documents required for determining contract grower eligibility. 

Supporting documents must show evidence of loss and that grazing land or pastureland is owned or leased. If a loss of grazing was due to a fire that the eligible livestock producer was prohibited by the federal agency from having livestock graze the normal permitted livestock on the managed rangeland due to a fire. FSA will use data provided by the applicant to determine eligibility for program benefits. 

Providing the data is voluntary; however, without all required data, program benefits will not be approved or provided.

The Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) provides payments to:

- Eligible livestock owners and contract growers who have covered livestock and 

- Who are also producers of grazed forage crop acreage (native and improved pasture land with permanent vegetative cover 

- Or certain crops planted specifically for grazing) that have suffered a loss of grazed forage due to a qualifying drought during the normal grazing period for the county. 

LFP also provides payments to: 

- Eligible livestock owners or contract growers&#x2004;that have covered livestock and 

- Who are also producers of grazed forage crop acreage on rangeland managed by a federal agency if, the eligible livestock producer is prohibited by the federal agency from grazing the normal permitted livestock on the managed rangeland due to a qualifying fire. 

The qualifying drought and qualifying grazing losses, and/or notification of prohibition to graze Federal land due to fire, must have occurred in the grazing period and crop year. 



The Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) provides payments to:
- Eligible livestock owners and contract growers who have covered livestock and 
- Who are also producers of grazed forage crop acreage (native and improved pasture land with permanent vegetative cover 
- Or certain crops planted specifically for grazing) that have suffered a loss of grazed forage due to a qualifying drought during the normal grazing period for the county. 
LFP also provides payments to: 
- Eligible livestock owners or contract growers that have covered livestock and 
- Who are also producers of grazed forage crop acreage on rangeland managed by a federal agency if, the eligible livestock producer is prohibited by the federal agency from grazing the normal permitted livestock on the managed rangeland due to a qualifying fire. 
The qualifying drought and qualifying grazing losses, and/or notification of prohibition to graze Federal land due to fire, must have occurred in the grazing period and crop year. 

Eligible Counties for Drought 
An eligible livestock owner or contract grower who, as a grazed forage crop producer, owns or leases grazing land or pastureland physically located in a county rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having a: 
- D2 (severe drought) intensity in any area of the county for at least eight consecutive weeks during the normal grazing period is eligible to receive assistance in an amount equal to one monthly payment; 
- D3 (extreme drought) intensity in any area of the county at any time during the normal grazing period is eligible to receive assistance in an amount equal to three monthly payments; 
- D3 (extreme drought) intensity in any area of the county for at least four weeks during the normal grazing period or is rated a D4 (exceptional drought) intensity at any time during the normal grazing period is eligible to receive assistance in an amount equal to four monthly payments; or
- D4 (exceptional drought) in a county for four weeks (not necessarily four consecutive weeks) during the normal grazing period is eligible to receive assistance in an amount equal to five monthly payments. 
A map of eligible counties for LFP drought can be found here. 
Eligible Livestock 
Eligible livestock are grazing animals that satisfy the majority of net energy requirement of nutrition via grazing of forage grasses or legumes and include such species as alpacas, beef cattle, buffalo/ bison, beefalo, dairy cattle, deer, elk, emus, equine, goats, llamas, reindeer or sheep. 
Within those species animals that are eligible include those that are or would have been grazing the eligible grazing land or pastureland: 
- During the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland for the county; or 
- When the federal agency prohibited the livestock owner or contract grower from having livestock graze the normally permitted livestock on the managed rangeland due to fire. 
Eligible Livestock must: 
- Have been owned, leased, purchased, entered into a contract to purchase, or held by a contract grower during the 60 days prior to the beginning date of a qualifying drought or fire condition; 
- Have been sold or otherwise disposed of due to a qualifying drought condition during the current production year or one or both of the two production years immediately preceding the current production year; 
- Have been maintained for commercial use as part of a farming operation on the beginning date of the eligible drought or fire condition; 
- Not have been produced and maintained for reasons other than commercial use as part of a farming operation (such excluded uses include, but are not limited to, wild free-roaming animals or animals used for recreational purposes such as pleasure, hunting, pets, roping or for show); and 
- Not have been livestock that were or would have been in a feedlot on the beginning date of the qualifying drought or fire as part of the normal business operation of the livestock owner or contract grower. 
Eligible Producers 
To be eligible for LFP, persons or legal entities must be a U.S. citizen, resident alien, partnership of U.S. citizens, a legal entity organized under State law, or an Indian tribe or tribal organization defined in the Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act that: 
- Own, cash or share lease, or be a contract grower of covered livestock during the 60 calendar days before the beginning date of a qualifying drought or fire; 
- Provide pastureland or grazing land for covered livestock, including cash-rented pastureland or grazing land as of the date of the qualifying drought or fire that is either: 
    - Physically located in a county affected by a qualifying drought during the normal grazing period for the county; or
    - Rangeland managed by a federal agency for which the otherwise eligible livestock producer is prohibited by the federal agency from grazing the normally permitted livestock because of a qualifying fire. 
- Certify that they have suffered a grazing loss because of a qualifying drought or fire; and 
- Timely file an acreage report for all grazing land for which a grazing loss is being claimed.

Livestock

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Rams

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Guinea Pigs

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Mink

Mohair

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Water Buffalo

Beef Bottom Round

Beef Brisket

Beef Chuck Roast

Beef Eye Round

Beef Flank Steak

Beef Flat Iron Steak

Beef Heart

Beef Liver

Beef London Broil

Beef NY Strip Steak

Beef Oxtail

Beef Rib Steak

Beef Rump Roast

Beef Short Ribs

Beef Sirloin

Beef Sirloin Tip Roast

Beef Skirt Steak

Beef Soup Bones

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Lamb Leg

Lamb Liver

Lamb Shank

Lamb Shoulder

Lamb Stew Meat

Bison Calf

Bison Meat

Bucks

Nannies

Slaughter Goats

- Eligibility Maps
- 2026 Counties and Pasture Type

2026 Program Year Livestock Forage Disaster Program Maps (PDF files)
- Annual Crab Grass for 2026 LFP 04-30-26
- Annual Rye Grass for 2026 LFP 04-30-26
- Cool Season Improved for 2026 LFP 04-30-26
- Forage Sorghum for 2026 LFP 04-30-26
- Full Season Improved for 2026 LFP 04-30-26
- Full Season Improved Mixed for 2026 LFP 04-30-26
- Long Season Small Grains for 2026 LFP 04-30-26
- Native Pasture for 2026 LFP 04-30-26
- Short Season Small Grains for 2026 LFP 04-30-26
- Short Season Spring Small Grains for 2026 LFP 04-30-26
- Short Season Fall Winter Small Grains for 2026 LFP 04-30-26
- Warm Season Improved for 2026 LFP 04-30-26


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Payments 
FSA will calculate LFP payments for an eligible livestock producer for grazing losses because of a qualifying drought equal to payment factors of one, three, four or five times the LFP monthly payment rate. The LFP monthly payment rate for drought is equal to 60 percent of the lesser of either the monthly feed cost: 
- For all covered livestock owned or leased by the eligible livestock producer; or 
- Calculated by using the normal carrying capacity of the eligible grazing land of the eligible livestock producer. 
Total LFP payments to an eligible livestock owner or contract grower in a calendar year for grazing losses will not exceed five monthly payments for the same kind, type, and weight range of livestock. 
In the case of an eligible livestock owner or contract grower who sold or otherwise disposed of livestock because of drought conditions in one or both of the two previous production years immediately preceding the current production year, the payment rate will equal 80 percent of the monthly payment rate. 
FSA will calculate LFP payments for eligible livestock owners or contract growers for losses suffered because of a qualifying fire on federally managed rangeland for which the producer is prohibited from grazing the normally permitted livestock. The payment begins on the first day the permitted livestock are prohibited from grazing the eligible rangeland and ending on the earlier of the last day of the federal lease of the eligible livestock producer or the day that would make the period a 180 calendar-day period. The payment rate is 50 percent of the monthly feed cost for the number of days the owner or contract grower is prohibited from having livestock graze the managed rangeland because of a qualifying fire, not to exceed 180 calendar days.
Payments Limitation 
The Agriculture Improvement Act (2018 Farm Bill) established a maximum annual per person and legal entity payment limitation for LFP (without regard to any other program) of $125,000. 
Therefore, for 2019 and subsequent program years, no person or legal entity, excluding a joint venture or general partnership, may receive, directly or indirectly, more than $125,000 total in payments under LFP. The average adjusted gross income (AGI) limitation relating to limits on payments for persons or legal entities, excluding joint ventures and general partnerships, with certain levels of AGI will apply. Specifically, a person or legal entity with an AGI (as defined in 7 CFR Part 1400) that exceeds $900,000 will not be eligible to receive LFP payments. 
Direct attribution provisions apply to LFP. Under direct attribution, any payment to a legal entity will also be considered for payment limitation purposes to be a payment to persons or legal entities with an interest in the legal entity or in a sub-entity. To learn more, visit the Payment Eligibility and Payment Limitations fact sheet at fsa.usda.gov/payment-limitations.

Complete the application through the online portal at https://maine-dacf.wizehive.app/program/nrdrap/. Paper applications are available at local FSA or UMaine Extension Offices, by request, or as a downloadable PDF. Application period: August 14, 2026 - November 6, 2026. Program staff hold in-person office hours at FSA offices and virtual Zoom office hours during the application window. Applicants do not need to attend a session to apply.

Lily Kenny

The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) administers the Maine Natural Resources Disaster Relief Assistance Program (NRDRAP), which provides assistance to eligible producers impacted by severe weather in 2023 and 2024. This effort is supported by the federal Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2025. Maine farmers, forestry businesses, and other eligible producers who experienced weather-related losses in 2023 or 2024 may be able to receive assistance through&#x2004;this program and are encouraged to apply.


NRDRAP is designed to help support recovery from eligible losses caused by severe weather, including: crop loss; aquaculture loss; standing timber loss; harvested timber loss; on-farm infrastructure loss; and bare-ground practices necessary to mitigate land loss.


Maine has received $60 million in funding to distribute to Maine producers. Maine successfully advocated for including compensation for infrastructure losses in its program, recognizing that these were among the most devastating losses resulting from weather events in 2023 and 2024.



The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) administers the Maine Natural Resources Disaster Relief Assistance Program (NRDRAP), which provides assistance to eligible producers impacted by severe weather in 2023 and 2024. This effort is supported by the federal Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2025. Maine farmers, forestry businesses, and other eligible producers who experienced weather-related losses in 2023 or 2024 may be able to receive assistance through this program and are encouraged to apply.

NRDRAP is designed to help support recovery from eligible losses caused by severe weather, including: crop loss; aquaculture loss; standing timber loss; harvested timber loss; on-farm infrastructure loss; and bare-ground practices necessary to mitigate land loss.

Maine has received $60 million in funding to distribute to Maine producers. Maine successfully advocated for including compensation for infrastructure losses in its program, recognizing that these were among the most devastating losses resulting from weather events in 2023 and 2024.

Eligible producers must have experienced weather-related losses in 2023 or 2024. Key requirements:

- Eligible losses must not have been ones that could have been covered by other existing USDA disaster programs, insurance payouts, or other relief programs.
- Eligible applicants must have ownership or legal authority over the parcel(s) seeking assistance.
- Before receiving payments, applicants will be asked to register as a vendor with the State of Maine.

For timber assistance only, applicants must hire a licensed forester to complete additional required forms (the forester's services are eligible for reimbursement).

Applicants will be eligible for a single payment that shall not exceed 95% of their eligible loss. Upon the closure of the application in November, the Department will determine the payment factor (up to 95%, based on the total loss coverage requested by all eligible applicants and the total $60M available) applied to each applicant's eligible loss calculation. Payments made under NRDRAP are considered taxable income and must be reported on taxes. Applicants must maintain financial and other records related to this program for three (3) years, as required by the USDA.

Applying for Coverage
Eligible producers must apply for coverage using form CCC-471, “Application for Coverage,” and pay the applicable service fee at the FSA office where their farm records are maintained. The application and service fee must be filed by the application closing date. 
Application closing dates vary by crop and are established by the FSA State Committee. Contact your local FSA office to verify application closing dates. Producers who apply for NAP coverage acknowledge that they have received the NAP Basic Provisions, available at FSA county offices and at fsa.usda.gov/nap.

NAP provides financial assistance to producers of noninsurable crops when low yields, loss of inventory, or prevented planting occur due to natural disasters.



Eligible Producers
Eligible crops include those for which federal crop insurance is not available, such as fruits, vegetables, aquaculture, floriculture, mushrooms, turfgrass, ginseng, honey, maple sap, and others. Producers must meet specific criteria and comply with all program requirements. Producers are encouraged to check with their local FSA office for specific requirements, application deadlines, and additional program details.

An eligible producer is a landowner, tenant or sharecropper who shares in the risk of producing an eligible crop and is entitled to an ownership share of that crop. An individual’s or entity’s average adjusted gross income (AGI) cannot exceed $900,000 to be eligible for NAP payments. Also, NAP payments received, directly or indirectly, will be attributed to the applicable individual or entity and limited to $125,000 per crop year, per individual or entity for crops with basic (catastrophic) coverage. Any NAP payments received directly or indirectly for crops with additional (buy-up) coverage, will be attributed to the applicable individual or entity and limited to $300,000 per crop year, per individual or entity. (To learn more, visit fsa.usda.gov/limits.) 
Eligible Crops  must be commercially produced agricultural commodities for which crop insurance is not available and be any of the following:
- Crops grown for food
- Crops planted and grown for livestock consumption, such as grain and forage crops, including native forage; Crops grown for fiber, such as cotton and flax (except trees)
- Crops grown in a controlled environment, such as mushrooms and floriculture
- Specialty crops, such as honey and maple sap
- Sea oats and sea grass
- Sweet sorghum and biomass sorghum
- Industrial crops, including crops used in manufacturing or grown as a feedstock for renewable biofuel, renewable electricity or biobased products
- Value loss crops, such as aquaculture, Christmas trees, ginseng, ornamental nursery and turf-grass sod
- Seed crops where the propagation stock is produced for sale as seed stock for other eligible NAP crop production

Eligible Causes of Loss
Eligible causes of loss include the following natural disasters:
- Damaging weather, such as drought, freeze, hail, excessive moisture, excessive wind or hurricanes
- Adverse natural occurrences, such as earthquake or flood
- Conditions related to damaging weather or adverse natural occurrences, such as excessive heat, plant disease, volcanic smog (VOG) or insect infestation.
The damaging weather or adverse natural occurrence must occur during the coverage period, before or during harvest, and must directly affect the eligible crop.

A price safety net or insurance on a product that might face situational changes.

Insurance

- Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) Related Information
- Noninsured Disaster Assistance Program Fact Sheet

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How It Works
Program Features
Coverage Levels
- Catastrophic Coverage (CAT): Provides coverage at 50% of the approved yield and 55% of the average market price.
- Buy-Up Coverage: Offers higher levels of coverage, up to 65% of the approved yield and 100% of the average market price.
Application Deadline: Producers must apply for coverage by the crop-specific application closing date.
Service Fee: Producers must pay a service fee of $325 per crop per county, not to exceed $825 per producer per county or $1,950 for multi-county producers.
Premiums: For buy-up coverage, additional premiums apply based on the coverage level selected.


FSA will generate pre-filled ECAP applications for producers based on their acreage of eligible commodities on FSA-578. Beginning in late-March 2025, FSA will mail those pre-filled applications to producers who had reported their 2024 crop year acreage of eligible commodities by March 10, 2025. Producers with a level 2 eAuthentication account or a login.gov account may complete their application electronically by visiting https://www.fsa.usda.gov/​ecap.
Applicants must submit the FSA-63 ECAP, Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (ECAP) Application, electronically or to their local FSA county office [9]  by August 15, 2025. Applicants will submit one application that includes all eligible acreage in all counties nationwide.
To apply for ECAP, an applicant must have also reported their planted and prevented planted acreage of eligible commodities to FSA on FSA-578 and filed a notice of loss for acres that were prevented from being planted on CCC-576, if applicable. FSA will not accept applications on which producers have manually entered acreage data except in situations where adjustment of eligible acres is required as explained in the Eligible Acreage section of this document.
Producers who had not reported planted and prevented planted acreage on FSA-578 and filed a notice of loss for prevented planted acreage using CCC-576 by March 10, 2025, must submit those forms as described in the Eligible Acreage section of this document by August 15, 2025. Once submitted, FSA will generate a pre-filled ECAP application for the producer to complete and sign.
Applicants must also submit the following eligibility forms to FSA by August 17, 2026, if not already on file with FSA for the 2024 program year:
- AD-2047, Customer Data Worksheet, for new applicants and applicants who need to update their information;
- CCC-901, Member Information for Legal Entities, if applicable;
- CCC-902E, Farm Operating Plan for an Entity; if applicable;
- CCC-902I, Farm Operating Plan for an Individual, if applicable;
- CCC-943, 75% of Average Gross Income from Farming, Ranching, or Forestry Certification, for producers and members of legal entities who are requesting an increase to the payment limitation;
- AD-1026 Highly Erodible Land Conservation (HELC) and Wetland Conservation (WC) Certification, for the producer and affiliated persons, as specified in7 CFR 12.8; and
- SF-3881, ACH Vendor/Miscellaneous Payment Enrollment Form.[10] 


Kathy Sayers

The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is issuing this notice announcing the funding for ECAP, which will provide economic assistance payments to eligible producers of eligible commodities for the 2024 crop year. ECAP is a new FSA program authorized by the American Relief Act, 2025. This notice also announces the eligibility (commodities, acres, producers, and losses), payment calculations, payment limitations, and how to apply (pre-filled application and any required adjustments) for ECAP.



ECAP will use up to $10 billion to issue 1-time economic assistance payments to eligible producers of eligible commodities for the 2024 crop year. These payments are intended to help farmers cope with losses from natural disasters and a difficult farm economy, and will help preserve family farms and ranches across the country while also continuing to ensure food and agricultural security for our nation.

One-time, per-acre direct payment. No match, no cost-share, nothing to repay.

How it is calculated: "ECAP assistance will be calculated using a flat payment rate for the eligible commodity multiplied by the eligible reported acres." Rates are per acre and differ by commodity; FSA publishes the commodity rate table and an online ECAP payment calculator. "Payments are based on acreage not production. For acres reported as prevented planted, ECAP will be limited to 50 percent of reported acres."

Payments were pro-rated, so expect less than the headline rate: "Initial ECAP payments will be factored by 85 percent to ensure total program payments do not exceed available funding. FSA is issuing a second payment equal to 14% of the gross ECAP payment to eligible producers, making the final payment factor 99%."

Payment limitation per person or legal entity: "$125,000, if less than 75 percent of the average gross income of the person or legal entity for the 2020, 2021, and 2022 tax years is derived from farming, ranching, or forestry activities; and $250,000, if not less than 75 percent...". Filing form CCC-943 is what establishes the higher limit. "These payment limitations are separate from the payment limitations that apply to other programs."

Scale and status: "USDA's Farm Service Agency is issuing up to $10 billion in direct payments" for the 2024 crop year, and "More than $8 billion in payments have been paid out to date." One application covered a producer's entire operation nationwide. Sign-up closed August 15, 2025 — this is a closed, one-time 2024-crop-year program.

List of Agricultural Funding for Operations Experiencing Crop Loss