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The Livestock Indemnity Program may provide payments to agricultural producers for livestock deaths caused by adverse weather in excess of normal mortality.

Livestock Loss Indemnity Program Due To The Weather

A listener wants to know how many cattle die due to extreme cold each year in Montana. And what's the story behind "The Great Die-Up" of 1887?

The Emergency

USDA made updates to several conservation, livestock and crop disaster assistance programs to give more farmers and ranchers access to programs that support recovery following natural disasters.

Going back almost 100 years, the history of the farm bill largely tracks the history of food production in the United States as the legislation evolves to meet the needs of its modern-day constituents – farmers and...

A whistleblower reveals how fraudulent wolf kills hurt recovery of the endangered species

A series of April blizzards created a “long tail” of cattle illnesses, including pneumonia and scours. Losses range from zero to hundreds of calves, on top of record-setting drought and low feed and forage supplies. The numbers hide some of the effects — the loss in value when either a calf or a cow is lost, leaving orphans. 

The Independent Beef Association of North Dakota and the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association say USDA’s LIP program was better in 2019. The program was changed in 2020, and the groups say this change is hurting…

Wildfires are on a furious pace early this year — from a California hilltop where mansions with multimillion-dollar Pacific Ocean views were torched to remote New Mexico mountains charred by a month-old monster blaze.