An online tool is now available to help ranchers document and estimate payments to help cover the costs of feed transportation caused by drought.
Those costs are now covered by the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-raised Fish Program, or ELAP.
The USDA updated the program this year to include feed transportation costs and lowered the threshold for when assistance for water hauling expenses is available.
USDA will begin taking applications this fall.
More information is available at www.fsa.usa.gov/elap.
