Many South Dakotans are dealing with flood issues following recent blizzards and record-breaking rain.
South Dakota producers face new challenges each day. SDSU Extension is your partner, providing resources and expertise to help meet production goals.
As snow melts, livestock producers will deal with mud at a minimum and extensive flooding as a worst-case scenario. While we can’t control the pace of melting or the possibility of more precipitation, we may be able to take a few steps to mitigate the negative impacts.
The Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) is designed to provide a payment to livestock owners or contract growers who experience excess livestock deaths due to adverse weather, including winter storms, floods, extreme cold and blizzards, eligible disease and eligible attacks.
Even though every producer tries their best to keep all animals born alive, there will always be death loss in livestock production systems.