The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting applications for Stage Two of the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP). SDRP provides more than $16 billion in disaster relief payments to eligible producers who suffered revenue, quality or production losses to crops, trees, bushes or vines due to qualifying disaster events in 2023 and 2024.
USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) is delivering SDRP assistance to eligible producers in two stages. Producers can receive payments in both stages, if applicable, and for one or both years, depending on losses.
Stage One, announced in July, remains available to producers who received an indemnity under crop insurance or the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program for eligible crop losses due to qualifying 2023 and 2024 natural disaster events.
Stage Two provides payments to eligible producers for losses that were not indemnified in Stage One. These losses are also known as uncovered or shallow losses. Eligible losses must be due to wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, tornadoes, winter storms, freeze, smoke exposure, excessive moisture, qualifying drought and related conditions.
FSA county offices began accepting SDRP Stage Two applications on Nov. 24. Producers have until April 30, 2026, to apply for both Stage One and Stage Two assistance.
“The majority of payments from the first stage are already in the hands of producers, helping them prepare for and invest in the next crop year,” U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said.
Learn more about both stages of the SDRP, including how to apply, here.
Since March, USDA has supported U.S. farmers and ranchers with more than $16 billion in supplemental disaster assistance mandated by Congress in the 2025 American Relief Act. Those payments include $9.3 billion through the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program, more than $1 billion through the Emergency Livestock Relief Program and, to date, more than $5.7 billion in SDRP Stage One payments.
Source: USDA
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