Livestock Program meeting announced

Under the 2014 Farm Bill, Congress enacted a number of disaster assistance programs to assist livestock producers affected by severe weather conditions. These programs, which have been reauthorized in the most current 2018 Farm Bill include the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) which provides financial compensation for livestock lost due to qualifying weather related causes; Livestock Forage Program (LFP) which covers losses to grazing lands due to wildfire and drought; and the Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP) which covers a wide range of potential losses to livestock, honey bees,...