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Multiple Farm Service Agency programs are eligible, including the Livestock Forage Disaster Program; Emergency Assistance for Livestock Program; Livestock Indemnity Program; Honeybees and Farm ...
The Livestock Assistance Program (LAP) is an emergency livestock assistance periodically authorized and funded by Congress in response to natural disasters. The pre-2005 version of LAP provides direct payments to eligible livestock producers who suffered grazing losses due to natural disasters during either calendar year 2001 or 2002 (not both).
Under the program, estimated total direct payments of just over $1 billion were made to all producers of beef, dairy, sheep and goats in any county that was declared a disaster area by the Secretary of Agriculture between January 1, 2001, and February 20, 2003, regardless of the individual producer's loss experience. The payment rates under the ...
The Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) is a program periodically authorized and funded on an emergency basis by Congress to compensate livestock producers for losses caused by a natural disaster. Under the program, a payment is made to help producers defray the cost of replenishing their herds when livestock are killed by a natural disaster.
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New Jersey is the only state in the nation where the farmer constituents of the Department of Agriculture set policy and actively manage the department and select its secretary. The State Board of Agriculture, an eight-member body created by statute in 1887, serves as the policy-making and general head of the department.
These funds come from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery programs of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The division is committed to efficiently and effectively addressing the long-term needs of New Jersey's Sandy-impacted residents and communities through programs designed to help homeowners ...
Livestock is fed either by letting them directly graze forage from pasture, or by growing crops like corn or soybeans for fodder. Both are highly important; the majority of soybeans are grown for fodder, while a third of croplands worldwide are devoted to forage, which feeds around 1.5 billion cattle, 0.21 billion buffalo, 1.2 billion sheep and ...