---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1472"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1472"
heading: "Assistance for livestock producers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1472"
units:
  - "Chapter 35A — Price Support of Agricultural Commodities"
  - "Subchapter V — Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988"
---

# §1472. Assistance for livestock producers

- (a) **Definition of livestock—** In this section, the term “[livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2)” includes elk, reindeer, bison, horses, and deer.
- (b) **Availability of assistance—** In such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriation Acts, the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture may provide assistance to dairy and other [livestock producers](/usc/7/1471.md?p=1) to cover economic losses incurred by such producers in connection with the production of [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2).
- (c) **Types of assistance—** The assistance provided to [livestock producers](/usc/7/1471.md?p=1) may be in the following forms:
  - (1) Indemnity payments to [livestock producers](/usc/7/1471.md?p=1) who incur [livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) mortality losses.
  - (2) [Livestock](/usc/7/1471.md?p=2) [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4) assistance to [livestock producers](/usc/7/1471.md?p=1) affected by shortages of [feed](/usc/7/1471.md?p=4).
  - (3) Compensation for sudden increases in production costs.
  - (4) Such other assistance, and for such other economic losses, as the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) considers appropriate.
- (d) **Limitations—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) may not use the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to provide assistance under this section.
- (e) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–171, title X, § 10104, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 488; Pub. L. 108–447, div. A, title VII, § 785(b)(2), Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 2850; Pub. L. 109–97, title VII, § 784(b)(3), Nov. 10, 2005, 119 Stat. 2162.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, and not as part of the Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988 which comprises this subchapter or as part of the Agricultural Act of 1949 which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of the 1949 Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1421 of this title and Tables.

### Amendments

2005—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–97 substituted “bison, horses, and deer” for “and bison”.

2004—Pub. L. 108–447 added subsec. (a) and redesignated former subsecs. (a) to (d) as (b) to (e), respectively.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2005 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 109–97 applicable to losses resulting from a disaster that occurs on or after July 28, 2005, and inapplicable to losses resulting from a disaster that occurs before such date, see section 784(c) of Pub. L. 109–97, set out as a note under section 1471 of this title.