L’agriculture met à jour les cartes d’aide sécheresse ; Porto Rico est éligible chaque semaine

On September 5, 2026, a day after reviewing the Emergency Farm Loans, this table opens the official map page of the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) of the Farm Service Agency. That page is not a check announcement: it is the weekly dashboard that shows, by county and by forage type, which jurisdictions in the United States and Puerto Rico qualify for LFP based on grazing periods and drought intensity. FSA states it precisely: the maps and table "depict the weekly LFP program eligibility by county for the US and Puerto Rico, based on grazing periods, drought intensity, and forage types".

For the 2026 program year, FSA publishes PDFs by type of grass: Annual Crab Grass, Annual Rye Grass, Cool Season Improved, Forage Sorghum, Full Season Improved, Full Season Improved Mixed, Long Season Small Grains, Native Pasture, Short Season Small Grains, Short Season Spring Small Grains, Short Season Fall Winter Small Grains, and Warm Season Improved. In the institutional capture from early September, those files were dated 09-03-26; when revisiting the page later in the window, the same titles appeared dated 09-10-26. That weekly rotation is the program's design, not a contradiction: LFP eligibility moves with the U.S. Drought Monitor and with the grazing windows.

The FSA itself inserts a methodological warning that this journal should not omit: "The 2026 LFP Eligibility Maps does not incorporate the updated drought eligibility thresholds included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Once the process is updated with the new criteria, the eligibility maps will reflect those updates." In governance language: the map that the producer sees in September 2026 still operates with previous thresholds, not with the most recent statutory reform. A producer who assumes that the new law is already drawn on the PDF is mistaken.

LFP is not the same instrument as the Emergency Farm Loans reviewed on September 3. LFP is a forage loss payment program tied to drought; the emergency loan is repayable credit with a $500,000 cap. It is also not ELAP (Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish), nor LIP (Livestock Indemnity Program), nor ECP (Emergency Conservation Program), nor NAP, nor TAP. The LFP map page coexists, in the FSA menu, with all those acronyms; mixing them inflates or hides money.

The connection with Puerto Rico is institutional, not anecdotal. FSA states that the geography of the maps includes Puerto Rico. This aligns with the secretarial drought designations that PRFAA attributed to USDA on August 26 and September 2, covering 38 different municipalities and opening, among other tools, consideration for FSA assistance. But the LFP eligibility map is not a payment list. This body does not invent how many Puerto Rican herds received LFP in 2026 or the amount by municipality: those totals are not on the maps page.

Para un ganadero en un municipio designado, el flujo verificable es: (1) confirmar que su tipo de forraje y su municipio aparecen en el PDF de la semana; (2) verificar que cumple los requisitos de inventario y de sequía del programa; (3) presentar la documentación en la oficina FSA local. Nada de eso es automático. Un municipio puede estar en sequía D2–D4 en el Drought Monitor y, aun así, no calificar para un tipo de pasto concreto si el periodo de pastoreo no coincide.

The MONEY/news angle is institutional design: FSA updates a cartographic product weekly that includes Puerto Rico, warns that the OBBBA thresholds are not yet incorporated, and maintains LFP as a payment (not a loan) subject to eligibility. Obliged is not disbursed; a red pixel on a map is not an ACH. If later FSA publishes an LFP 2026 payments report by territory, that will be another note, with another URL and another figure.

Summary of September 5: the LFP 2026 maps exist, they are dated by week, they cover Puerto Rico, and they still do not reflect the new OBBBA thresholds. That is the operational truth that a producer can use; the rest is noise.