The Washington County USDA FSA office reminds producers that the 2014 Farm Bill, formally known as the Agricultural Act of 2014, makes the Livestock Forage Program and Livestock Indemnity Program permanent programs and provides retroactive authority to cover eligible losses back to October 1, 2011.  LFP provides compensation to eligible producers who suffered grazing losses due to drought and fire.  LIP provides compensation to livestock producers who suffered livestock death losses in excess of normal mortality due to adverse weather and attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the Federal Government or protected by Federal law, including wolves and avian predators.  Producers should record all pertinent information of natural disaster consequences, including ownership and losses, dates of death supported by birth recordings or purchase receipts, costs of transporting livestock to safer grounds or to move animals to new pastures, feed purchases if supplies or grazing pastures are destroyed, crop records, including seed and fertilizer purchases, planting and production records, pictures of on-farm storage facilities that were destroyed by wind or flood waters and evidence of damaged farm land.  For more information, contact the Washington County FSA office at 327-8862.