The USDA Farm Service Agency's Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) provides more than $16 billion in financial assistance to agricultural producers who experienced eligible crop losses from natural disasters during the 2023 and 2024 growing seasons. The program covers revenue, production, and quality losses affecting crops, trees, bushes, and vines caused by events such as hurricanes, floods, wildfires, excessive heat, freeze events, smoke exposure, excessive moisture, qualifying drought, and other weather-related disasters. SDRP is being implemented in two stages: Stage 1 provides payments for producers with losses already covered by federal crop insurance or the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP), while Stage 2 addresses uninsured losses, "shallow" losses that did not trigger an indemnity payment, and eligible quality losses.
Eligible producers must apply through their local USDA Farm Service Agency office and meet program requirements, including maintaining crop insurance or NAP coverage for the next two available crop years. The application deadline for both Stage 1 and Stage 2 has been extended to August 12, 2026. Producers in Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, and Massachusetts should note that crop losses in those states are being addressed through separate USDA-funded state block grant programs rather than SDRP, making them ineligible for direct SDRP crop-loss payments. Additional information, eligibility details, and application resources are available on the USDA Farm Service Agency SDRP webpage.