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What is ECP and How to Apply

January 7, 2022
Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) provides emergency funding and technical assistance to farmers and ranchers to rehabilitate farmland/ conservation structures that are damaged by natural disasters and implement emergency water conservation measures in periods of severe drought.
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What is ELAP and How to Apply

January 7, 2022
ELAP provides emergency assistance to eligible producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish. It covers losses due to adverse weather or other loss conditions including blizzards, disease, flood, water transport, and wildfires.
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What is LIP and How to Apply

January 7, 2022
LIP provides benefits to eligible livestock owners or contract growers for livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality caused by eligible loss conditions, including eligible adverse weather, eligible disease, and attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or protected by federal law.
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Come to the Table Program Director

[CLOSED] Job Opening: Program Director, Come to the Table

December 1, 2021
RAFI-USA seeks a values-driven, organized manager to lead the day-to-day activities of the Come to the Table program and help shape the program’s future strategic direction. Working directly with the Executive Director, the CTTT Director’s primary emphasis will be on strategy development and implementation, program oversight and evaluation,  fundraising, and partner development. 
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Farmers Helping Farmers

November 1, 2021
On a breezy, early fall day, Farmers of Color Network staff members joined farmers Steve and Elke McCalla at their Rocky Ridge Farm in Louisburg, NC for a small farmer brigade. Neighbor and friend Ken Daniels was there to pitch in as well.
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RAFI-USA Newsletters

October 5, 2021
Once a month, we gather together information about things we’re working on to share with you! It’s what’s happening now, in the past month, and in the coming months. Please take a moment to look at our latest E-Newsletter.
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