The U.S. Department of Agriculture is releasing billions in farm disaster assistance for those recovering from natural disasters across the country. USDA’s Farm Service Agency is delivering more than $16 billion in Supplemental Disaster Relief Program, or SDRP, assistance. These payments are in addition to $9.3 billion in Emergency Commodity Assistance Program assistance to more than 560,000 row crop farmers and over $705 million in Emergency Livestock Relief Program assistance to 220,000 ranchers. Stage Two of SDRP covers eligible crop, tree, bush and vine losses that were not covered under Stage One program provisions. For Stage Two program details, including fact sheets, visit fsa.usda.gov/sdrp. The first stage, 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. FSA county offices will begin accepting SDRP Stage Two applications on Nov. 24. Producers have until April 30, 2026, to apply for both Stage One and Stage Two assistance. Since March, USDA has distributed to U.S. farmers and ranchers more than $16 billion in supplemental disaster assistance mandated by Congress in the American Relief Act 2025, including over $1 billion through the Emergency Livestock Relief Program and more than $5.7 billion in SDRP Stage One payments.