The Supplemental Disaster Relief Program provides payments to agricultural producers who suffered eligible crop losses due to natural disasters in 2023 and 2024. The process involves two stages.
The first stage, which is now accepting applications, covers indemnified losses due to wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, winter storms/freezes, smoke exposure, excessive moisture and drought that occurred in 2023 and/or 2024. A list of counties eligible for SDRP payments due to drought is available online. The application uses Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program or Federal crop insurance coverage data to calculate payments.
To apply, applicants can review and sign the pre-filled SDRP applications mailed to producers and return it to their local FSA office in person, by mail, email or fax. For more information about stage 1, view the online fact sheet.
Stage 2 will begin in mid-September and will provide payments for producers with uncovered losses, quality losses and crop insurance or NAP coverage for 2023-24 who experienced shallow losses and did not receive an indemnity.