USDA Issues Second Supplemental Disaster Payment to Farmers, Extends Program Application Deadline to August 12
(Higginsville, MO, April 24, 2026) – US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins immediately in Missouri introduced the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is maximizing catastrophe help help for producers by issuing a second Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) fee to eligible producers who’ve authorized program functions for losses due to pure disasters in calendar years 2023 and 2024. USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) has already offered $6.7 billion in SDRP funds to eligible producers. Additionally, USDA is extending this system deadline to give producers and FSA extra time to handle any program software modifications that would influence funds. The unique April 30 deadline has been prolonged to Aug. 12, 2026, for SDRP Stage 1 and Stage 2.
Initial SDRP funds have been factored at 35%, however after additional evaluation, USDA is growing the fee issue to 70%, that means producers with authorized functions will obtain an extra 35% of their calculated SDRP fee. Future SDRP funds will even be made utilizing a 70% fee issue.
“President Trump is the most pro-farmer President of our lifetime, and through his leadership, the Administration is supporting farmers through unprecedented international market access, lowered taxes, and improvements to the farm safety net with the Working Families Tax Cuts. By extending the program deadline and making available this additional payment, we are continuing to put farmers first during this difficult farm economy,” mentioned Secretary Brooke Rollins. “To help secure the economic viability of disaster-impacted farmers, we’re taking deliberate steps to provide stronger, more meaningful financial support for our nation’s agricultural producers.”
Over the previous yr, the Trump administration and USDA, beneath the management of Secretary Rollins, have supported US farmers and ranchers with over $17.9 billion in supplemental catastrophe help mandated by Congress within the American Relief Act, 2025. To date, USDA has offered over $6.7 billion in SDRP funds, $9.3 billion via the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program and practically $1.9 billion via the Emergency Livestock Relief Program.
Additionally, via latest efforts to present financial reduction because the Trump administration works to open new markets, FSA has revamped $10 billion in funds, to date, via the Farmers Bridge Assistance program with extra help on the way in which for specialty crop producers. Since 2025, via everlasting applications, FSA has offered over $2.0 billion in catastrophe help, $5.3 billion in commodity worth help, $3.1 billion in security web help, and $685 million via conservation applications.
All in all, this administration has put Farmers First with over $39.1 billion in financial help wanted to get well from market and weather-related monetary hardships past their management, shield our pure assets and maintain their operations shifting ahead.
SDRP Stage 1
The first stage, introduced in July 2025, stays out there to producers who acquired an indemnity beneath crop insurance coverage or the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) for eligible crop losses due to qualifying 2023 and 2024 pure catastrophe occasions.
SDRP Stage 2
Stage 2 of SDRP covers eligible crop, tree, bush and vine losses that weren’t lined beneath Stage One program provisions, together with non-indemnified (shallow loss), uncovered and high quality losses.
Eligibility
Eligible losses have to be the results of pure disasters occurring in calendar years 2023 and/or 2024. These disasters embody wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, extreme warmth, tornadoes, winter storms, freeze (together with a polar vortex), smoke publicity, extreme moisture, qualifying drought, and associated situations.
To qualify for drought associated losses, the loss should have occurred in a county rated by the US Drought Monitor as having a D2 (extreme drought) for eight consecutive weeks, D3 (excessive drought), or higher depth stage in the course of the relevant calendar yr.
FSA is establishing block grants with Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, and Massachusetts that cowl crop losses; Therefore, producers with losses on land bodily positioned in these states should not eligible for SDRP program funds.
More Information
For extra info on SDRP, please go to fsa.usda.gov/sdrp.
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