---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1471d"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1471d"
heading: "Assistance programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1471d"
units:
  - "Chapter 35A — Price Support of Agricultural Commodities"
  - "Subchapter V — Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988"
---

# §1471d. Assistance programs

- (a) **Available programs—** In accordance with [section 1471c(a) of this title](/usc/7/1471c.md?p=a), the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall make one or more of the following assistance programs available to qualifying [livestock producers](/usc/7/1471.md?p=1) in a [State](/usc/7/1471.md?p=3), county or [area](/usc/7/1471.md?p=5), if the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) determines that the [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) emergency in such [State](/usc/7/1471.md?p=3), county or [area](/usc/7/1471.md?p=5) requires the implementation of such program:
  - (1) The donation of [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) grain owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation to producers who are financially unable to purchase [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) under [paragraph (2)](#a-2) or to participate in any other program authorized under this subsection.
  - (2) The sale of [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) grain owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation to producers for [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) at a price, established by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2), that does not exceed—
    - (A) with respect to such assistance provided for any [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) emergency determined to exist prior to January 1, 1989, 75 percent of the current basic county loan rate for such [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) grain in effect under this Act (or at a comparable price if there is no such current basic county loan rate), or
    - (B) with respect to such assistance provided for any other [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) emergency, 50 percent of the average [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) price in the county or [area](/usc/7/1471.md?p=5) involved, as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2).
  - (3) Reimbursement of any transportation and handling expenses incurred, not to exceed 50 percent of such expenses, by a producer in connection with [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) grain donations or sales under paragraphs [(1)](#a-1) and [(2)](#a-2).
  - (4) Reimbursement of not to exceed 50 percent of the cost of [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) purchased by a producer for the producer’s [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) during the duration of the [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) emergency.
  - (5) Hay and forage transportation assistance to producers of not to exceed 50 percent of the cost of transporting hay or forage purchased from a point of origin beyond a producer’s normal trade [area](/usc/7/1471.md?p=5) to the [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2), subject to the following limitations:
    - (A) The transportation assistance may not exceed $50 per ton of eligible hay or forage ($12.50 for silage).
    - (B) The quantity of eligible hay and forage for each producer may not exceed the lesser of—
      - (i) 20 pounds per day per eligible animal unit; or
      - (ii) the quantity of additional [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) needed by the producer for the duration of the [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) emergency.
  - (6) [Livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) transportation assistance to producers of not to exceed 50 percent of the cost of transporting [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) to and from available grazing locations, except that such assistance may not exceed the lesser of—
    - (A) $24 per head of a producer’s eligible [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2); or
    - (B) the local cost of the quantity of additional [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) needed by the producer for the eligible [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) for duration of the [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) emergency.
- (b) **Feed grain through dealer or manufacturer; reimbursement; feed grain stored on farm of producer—** If assistance is made available through the furnishing of [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) grain under paragraph [(1)](#a-1) or [(2)](#a-2) of subsection (a), the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2)—
  - (1) may provide for the furnishing of the [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) grain through a [dealer](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-6) or manufacturer and the replacing of the [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) grain so furnished from [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) grain owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation; or
  - (2) at the option of the [livestock producer](/usc/7/1471.md?p=1), shall provide for the furnishing of the [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) grain through the use of [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) grain stored on the farm of the producer that has been pledged as collateral for a [price support](/usc/7/1428.md?p=k-2) loan made under this Act.
- (c) **Payments or reimbursements through issuance of negotiable certificates—** In providing assistance under paragraph [(2)](#a-2) or [(4)](#a-4) of subsection (a), the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) may make in-kind payments or reimbursements through the issuance of negotiable certificates that the Commodity Credit Corporation shall exchange for a commodity in accordance with rules prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2).
- (d) **Approved application prerequisite to benefits—** No payment or benefit provided under this section shall be payable or due until such time as a completed application therefor has been approved.
- (e) **Time for application—** A [person](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) eligible to receive a payment or benefit under this section with respect to a [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) emergency determined to exist prior to January 1, 1989, shall make application for such payment or benefit not later than March 31, 1989, or such later date that the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2), by regulation, may prescribe.
- (f) **Livestock transportation assistance—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) may make available at least $25,000,000 to provide [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) transportation assistance under [subsection (a)(6)](#a-6) for [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) emergencies in 1989.

## Source credit

(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, § 606, as added Pub. L. 100–387, title I, § 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 928; amended Pub. L. 101–82, title II, §§ 201, 202, Aug. 14, 1989, 103 Stat. 581.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsecs. (a)(2)(A) and (b)(2), is act Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, 63 Stat. 1051, known as the Agricultural Act of 1949, which is classified principally to this chapter (§ 1421 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1421 of this title and Tables.

### Amendments

1989—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101–82, § 201, amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: “If assistance is made available through the furnishing of feed grain under paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary may provide for the furnishing of the feed grain through a dealer or manufacturer and the replacing of the feed grain so furnished from feed grain owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation.”

Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 101–82, § 202, added subsec. (f).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 15 days after Aug. 11, 1988, with subsecs. (a)(2)(A) and (e) of this section applicable only with respect to any livestock emergency in 1988, see section 101(c) of Pub. L. 100–387, set out as an Effective and Termination Dates of 1988 Amendment note under section 1427 of this title.

### Inapplicability of Section

Section inapplicable to 2014 through 2018 crops of covered commodities, cotton, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning Feb. 7, 2014, through Dec. 31, 2018, see section 9092(b)(12) of this title.

Section inapplicable to 2008 through 2012 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning June 18, 2008, through Dec. 31, 2012, see section 8782(b)(12) of this title.

Section inapplicable to 2002 through 2007 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning May 13, 2002, through Dec. 31, 2007, see section 7992(b)(12) of this title.

Section inapplicable to 1996 through 2002 crops of loan commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning Apr. 4, 1996, and ending Dec. 31, 2002, see section 7301(b)(1)(L) of this title.

### Emergency Forage Program

Pub. L. 100–387, title I, § 103, Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 932, directed the Secretary of Agriculture to implement an emergency forage program to reseed pasture damaged by the drought or related condition in 1988 and provided for 50 percent cost-sharing, a $3,500 limit on payments to any one producer and a $50,000,000 limit on Commodity Credit Corporation funds available for such program.