USDA Extends Livestock Disaster Recovery Assistance Application Deadline

USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced an extended deadline of November 21, 2025, for livestock producers to apply for assistance through the Emergency Livestock Relief Program for 2023 and 2024 Flood and Wildfire. The program is expected to provide approximately $1 billion in recovery benefits to producers whose livelihoods were adversely impacted by disrupted feed availability and poor forage conditions following catastrophic floods and wildfires in 2023 and 2024. FSA determined eligible counties with qualifying floods and wildfires in 2023 and 2024. For losses in these counties, livestock producers are not required to submit supporting documentation for floods or wildfire. In other counties, livestock producers may still be eligible but must provide supporting documentation