Eligible applicants include farmers and ranchers who have suffered damage to their farmland due to natural disasters. The damage must significantly impair the land’s agricultural productivity or pose a threat to land or water resources.

Eligible Farmland Restoration Practices:
To rehabilitate farmland, ECP participants may implement emergency conservation practices, such as:
• Removing debris from farmland (cleanup of wind- or water deposited debris, such as woody material, sand, rock and trash on cropland or pastureland, and clearing snow from feed stocks, water supplies, and feeding areas);
• Grading, shaping or leveling land (filling gullies, releveling irrigated farmland and incorporating sand and silt);
• Restoring fences (livestock cross fences, boundary fences, cattle gates, or wildlife exclusion fence on agricultural land);
• Restoring conservation structures (waterways, terraces, diversion ditches and permanently installed ditching system); and
• Providing emergency water during periods of severe drought (grazing and confined livestock and existing irrigation systems for orchards and vineyards).

Land Eligibility:
FSA county committees determine land eligibility based on on-site inspections of damaged land and the type and extent of damage.
Eligible land includes land used for:
• Commercial farming, ranching and orchard operations;
• Growing nursery stock and Christmas tree plantations;
• Grazing for commercial livestock production; and
• Conservation structures such as, waterways, terraces, diversions and windbreaks.
• Conservation problems existing before the applicable disaster event are ineligible for ECP assistance.