Funds available for livestock losses

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is now accepting applications from agricultural producers in Yakima, Franklin, Benton, Adams, Kittitas, Grant and Whitman counties who were impacted by snowstorms that resulted in livestock losses. Financial assistance is offered through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.

Applications must be received in an NRCS office by Friday, March 22. Up to $300 per animal is available to eligible producers to assist with the recovery of costs for transport and disposal of animal carcasses resulting from blizzards in February of 2019. Funding is lim...