About Us

Chair: Book St. Goddard

Vice Chair: Frid England

Secretary/Treasurer: Verna Billedeaux

• For the past 2 years, the BNSGA has worked with producers and buyers to market and promote our livestock to contract for higher calf prices.
• In the spring of 2018, the FSA program LIP compensated producers for livestock killed outright by weather, the BNSGA successfully lobbied the FSA to include all livestock that was frozen or sickened by and either survived with permanent damage or had to be destroyed later.  
•  BNSGA successfully lobbied the senate in 2019 to include tribal members in SB 133, to be eligible for Livestock Loss Board livestock depredations. BNSGA collaborated to create an MOU between the LLB (Livestock Loss Board) and Blackfeet Tribe for tribal members and non-members regarding livestock depredations. 
• BNSGA successfully lobbied the Dept. of Agriculture for assistance and was awarded partial funding for a Wildlife Service Agent for Glacier County. BNSGA collaborated on an MOU between USDA-APHIS Wildlife Services and the Blackfeet Tribe. 

Producers who had livestock on federally managed lands during the recent blizzards, (and are stocking within the appropriate AUM's during the normal grazing period), may be be eligible for ELAP (Emergency Livestock Assistance Program), if they suffered any loss of grazing due to deep snow or flattened grass. Livestock losses may be eligible for LIP (Livestock Indemnity Program) for storm killed livestock.

You have 30 days to file a notice of loss with the FSA. (Blizzards approx. during  Sept. 28-Oct. 14, 2019 or until snow melted.) Please contact your local FSA office for assistance.  (406) 873-5618 Glacier County,  (406) 278-7611 Pondera County