Emergency Livestock Relief Program 2023 and 2024 Flood and Wildfire

The Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) 2023 and 2024 Flood and Wildfire (FW) provides direct financial assistance to livestock producers for losses of increased supplement feed costs due to a qualifying flood or wildfire (excluding wildfire on

ELRP 2023 and 2024 Flood and Wildfire provides direct financial assistance to livestock producers for losses of increased supplemental feed costs due to a qualifying flood or wildfire (excluding wildfires on federally manage land) in calendar year 2023 and 2024. ELRP 2023 and 2024 Flood and Wildfire was authorized by the American Relief Act, 2025 (Division B, Pub. L. 118-158). Eligible livestock producers will be compensated after completing an ELRP 2023 and 2024 Flood and Wildfire Application (FSA-970) and required supporting documentation has been submitted. Upon publication date of the regulation, there will be a 45-day application period. The ELRP 2023 and 2024 Flood and Wildfire payments will be calculated based upon 60 percent of the FSA calculated monthly feed costs multiplied by the producer livestock in inventory at the beginning date of the qualifying disaster in the physical location, or normally would have been located absent of the qualifying disaster event. FSA will not issue payments at the beginning of the application period. However, during the application period, the Deputy Administrator will evaluate program demand and if an initial payment factor can be established, payments may begin to be processed. After the application period, FSA will determine a final payment factor, if applicable, to be applied to the payment calculation to ensure payments do not exceed the funding authorized by the Act. The payment factor will be dependent on the number of eligible applicants experiencing losses due to qualifying floods or wildfires in calendar years 2023 and 2024 and the number of affected livestock.

Applicants must be a citizen of the United States; resident alien; partnership of U.S. citizens of or resident aliens; corporation, limited liability company, or other organizational structure organized under State law solely owned by U.S. citizens or resident aliens; or Indian Tribe or Tribal organization. Applicants are not subject to an average adjusted gross income limit of $900,000.

Assistance will be used by livestock producers who have experienced losses of increased supplemental feed costs due to a qualifying flood or wildfire in calendar year 2023 and 2024.

There is a 45-calendar day application period for ELRP 2023 and 2024 FW. A FSA970 ELRP 2023 and 2024 Flood and Wildfire Application and required supporting documentation must be provided by the application period deadline. All payment eligibility required supporting documentation must be submitted to the applicant's FSA county office no later than on year from the date of the ELRP 2023 and 2024 FW deadline as announced by the Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs.

For ELRP 2023 and 2024 FW, the assistance will be approved and awarded by FSA to eligible livestock producers.

The application period for this program has ended. All required payment eligibility supporting documentation must be submitted to the applicant's FSA county office no later than November 2, 2026.

Applicants may request reconsideration of a decision by the decision authority or appeal such decisions to a higher authority including the county and State FSA committees and the National Appeals Division. Appeal regulations in 7 CFR parts 11 and 780 apply. Matters of general applicability that are not in response to, or result from, an individual set of facts in an individual participant's application for payment are not matters that can be appealed.