Disaster Relief Sign Up Starts Monday

Signups start Monday for the second round of disaster payments covering 2023 and 2024, as USDA readies its much-awaited tariff relief package expected out in December.  The Farm Service Agency will accept applications for Supplemental Disaster Relief and other loss programs from now through April 30th.

“SDRP 1 and 2, the Milk Loss Program, the On-Farm Stored Commodity Loss Program,” noted Farm Production and Conservation Under Secretary Richard Fordyce.  He added the programs cover a wide range of disasters.

“[Things like] wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, tornados, winter storms, freezes, smoke exposure and other related conditions that occurred, again, in that calendar year 2023 and 2024.”

The second round of aid adds to the more than $9.3 billion USDA issued earlier this year as part of the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program or ‘ECAP’, plus over $700 million for Emergency Livestock Relief.

Additionally, Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins said last week USDA will announce long-awaited tariff relief the first week of December.

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