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Crop, Feed, Livestock Loss Programs Extended Beginning on Jan. 25, 2008, eligible farmers and ranchers who suffered livestock, livestock feed and crop losses that occurred before Dec. 31, 2007, can apply to the Farm Service Agency to receive disaster payments.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 extends the Crop Disaster Program, Livestock Compensation Program and Livestock Indemnity Program to eligible farmers and ranchers who suffered 2007 crop, livestock and livestock feed losses throughout the 2007 crop year before Dec. 31, 2007.
The Farm Service Agency is now accepting applications and making payments for quantity losses before Dec. 31, 2007, under Crop Disaster Program and is currently issuing Livestock Compensation Program and Livestock Indemnity Program payments for losses up to Feb. 28, 2007, and will soon issue payments for losses incurred during the remainder of 2007. FSA will conduct sign-up and begin making payments for quality losses under CDP this spring.
The 2008 Act also extends FSA's authority to administer the Conservation Reserve Program and marketing loan benefits for wool and mohair through March 15, 2008. Under the 2002 Farm Bill, USDA‘s authority to administer these programs expired on Dec. 31, 2007.
In addition, the 2008 Act provides $3.3 billion in direct and guaranteed loan funds for FSA's Farm Loan Programs.
Information about CDP, LCP and LIP is available online at: http://disaster.fsa.usda.gov or contact your local FSA office.
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Grant County receives Natural Disaster Designation
Designation date is Dec. 10, 2007
During December, Grant County was designated as a primary natural disaster area because of losses caused by drought that occurred from Jan. 1, 2007, and are continuing. Farm operators in the Baker, Crook, Harney, Malheur, Morrow, Umatilla, Union and Wheeler counties also qualify for natural disaster benefits because they are located in contiguous counties.
Farmers in eligible counties have eight months from the date of the declaration to apply for loans to help cover part of their actual losses. Interested farmers may contact their local FSA office for further information on eligibility requirements and application procedures. Additional information is also available at: http://disaster.fsa.usda.gov.
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Sign-Up Dates for Livestock Disaster Program Livestock producers eligible for the Livestock Compensation Program and Livestock Indemnity Program can apply for benefits beginning Sept. 10, 2007. Livestock Compensation Program (LCP) compensates livestock producers for feed losses occurring between Jan. 1, 2005, and Feb. 28, 2007, due to a natural disaster. Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) compensates livestock producers for livestock losses between the same dates. This can include producers who suffered losses resulting from blizzards that started in 2006 and continued into January 2007. Livestock producers may elect to receive LCP compensation for calendar year 2007 grazing season losses that are attributable to wildfire natural disaster occurring during the applicable period as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. Producers in primary counties declared secretarial disaster areas or certain counties declared presidential disaster areas between Jan. 1, 2005, and Feb. 28, 2007, are eligible as are producers located in counties contiguous to those counties. Producers in a primary (or contiguous) county that received an Administrator's Physical Loss Notice directly associated with a disaster declaration made by President Bush may also be eligible. Producers incurring losses in more than one of the 2005, 2006 or 2007 calendar years must choose only one year for which they want to apply for benefits. More information online at: http://www.fsa.usda.gov; click on Disaster Assistance Programs. |
Five Oregon Counties designated Primary Natural Disaster Areas Designated on October 2, 2007 Baker and Wallowa counties were designated primary natural disaster areas because of losses caused by drought that occurred on May 1, 2007, and continues. Grant, Malheur, Umatilla and Union counties also qualify for natural disaster benefits because they are contiguous. areas because of losses caused by drought that occurred on May 1, 2007, and continues. Grant, Malheur, Umatilla and Union counties also qualify for natural disaster benefits because they are contiguous. Harney County was designated a primary natural disaster area because of losses caused by ongoing drought and wildfires that occurred on May 1, 2007, and continuing, with Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Lake and Malheur counties also qualifying as contiguous counties. because of losses caused by ongoing drought and wildfires that occurred on May 1, 2007, and continuing, with Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Lake and Malheur counties also qualifying as contiguous counties. Malheur County is designated a primary natural disaster area because of losses caused by ongoing drought and wildfires that occurred on March 1, 2007, and continuing. Baker, Grant and Harney also qualify for as contiguous counties. because of losses caused by ongoing drought and wildfires that occurred on March 1, 2007, and continuing. Baker, Grant and Harney also qualify for as contiguous counties. Union County was designated a primary natural disaster area because of losses caused by drought and frost that occurred on April 1, 2007, and continuing. Baker, Grant and Umatilla and Wallowa counties also qualify for natural disaster benefits because they are contiguous. because of losses caused by drought and frost that occurred on April 1, 2007, and continuing. Baker, Grant and Umatilla and Wallowa counties also qualify for natural disaster benefits because they are contiguous. All counties listed above were designated natural disaster areas on Oct. 2, 2007, making all qualified farm operators in the designated areas eligible for low interest emergency loans from USDA's Farm Service Agency, provided eligibility requirements are met. Farmers in eligible counties have eight months from the date of the declaration to apply for loans to help cover part of their actual losses. FSA will consider each loan application on its own merits, taking into account the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability. FSA has a variety of programs, in addition to the EM loan program, to help eligible farmers, including the Emergency Conservation Program, Federal Crop Insurance and the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program. For more information, contact your local FSA office.
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Livestock Risk Protection-Lamb to be offered beginning in September Sales of the new Livestock Risk Protection-Lamb (LRP-Lamb), which offers lamb producers protection against declines in price, will begin September 17, 2007. The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation’s Board of Directors approved the expansion of the LRP insurance to include a lamb pilot program as requested by the American Sheep Industry Assn. on September 28, 2006. ASI and its development partners, Applied Analytics, the American Sheep & Goat Center, the Livestock Marketing Information Center and Virginia Tech, worked with the FCIC and USDA’s Risk Management Agency for nearly three years to bring this much-needed insurance product to producers. Said ASI President, Burdell Johnson, “ASI has been committed to bringing this product to culmination since October 2004. The success of the LRP-Lamb will be dependent on the support producers and feeders show. The higher the demand for the product, the greater the chance it will have to thrive and become a permanent product.” LRP-Lamb is designed to insure against unexpected declines in market prices of slaughter lambs. Sheep producers may select 13-week, 26-week or 39-week insurance periods, as well as coverage levels ranging from 80 percent to 95 percent of the expected ending value to correspond with their general feeding, production and marketing practices. LRP-Lamb may be purchased on Monday each week (as long as rates and coverage prices are available) with sales beginning at approximately 10 a.m. on Monday morning when rates and coverage prices are released and ending on that same day at 7 p.m. Central time. Preliminary rates and coverage prices may be released the Friday evening prior to the day of sales for viewing over the weekend. Note that final rates and coverage prices available for sale on Monday may be different than the preliminary estimates.LRP-Lamb must be purchased through an insurance agent. Producers may access current rates and coverage prices and all policy materials, including premium calculation instructions, on the RMA web site LRP-Lamb is available to sheep producers with lambs located in all counties of the following 27 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. ASI is developing an online educational/training course detailing the features of LRP-Lamb that will be available in August. It is designed as a tool for producers and agents to learn more about the product and to offer scenarios to assist with the decision to purchase the insurance. It will be available at Sheep USA As an additional service to the sheep industry and to help ensure the success of the pilot program, ASI has created an insurance agency, Food and Fiber Risk Managers LLC. (See ASI’s web site for information about this agency.)
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Parasitic Concerns in Sheep
What are internal parasites?
Internal Parasites are creatures that live off of the host animal, but do not provide any benefit to the host. There are many target organs in the animal that are affected by parasites. For Example lung worms infest the lungs, liver. Click here to View Rest of Parasite article |
New Insurance Tools for Pasture, Rangeland and Forage Beginning with the 2007 crop year, two new risk management tools for pasture, rangeland and forage will be available through USDA’s Risk Management Agency and approved insurance providers. The new Rainfall index insurance program and the Vegetation index insurance program will provide livestock producers the ability to purchase insurance protection for losses of forage produced for grazing or harvested for hay. The Rainfall index insurance program will be pilot tested in 220 counties in Colorado, Idaho, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, North Dakota and Texas and is based on rainfall indices as a means to measure expected production losses. The Vegetation index insurance program will be pilot tested in 110 counties in Colorado, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and South Dakota and is based on satellite imagery that determines the productivity of the acreage as a means to measure expected production losses. Together, these pilot programs will be available to provide coverage on approximately 160 million of the 640 million acres of grazing land and hay land in the United States. Both insurance products are designed to allow maximum flexibility for the producer. For instance, producers are not required to insure all their acres, but may elect to insure only those acres that are important to their grazing program or hay operation. Further, producers are not required to insure the acreage for the entire crop year. The crop year is divided into intervals and producers may elect to insure their acreage for only those intervals where the risk is the greatest. Both of these products will be available for sale from crop insurance agents beginning in late August 2006. The sales closing date is November 30, 2006. More information: http://www.rma.usda.gov/policies/pasturerangeforage/
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