Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Farm Management Specialist Eric Weuve tells RadioOnTheGo News that in recent weeks, some area producers have received applications for a government program.
“Supplemental Disaster Relief Program or SDRP. A couple weeks ago, county office mailed out pre-filled applications and so those are a result if they had a crop insurance indemnity in either 23 or 24 crop year that automatically qualified. That’s part of a 16 billion dollar disaster relief program that USDA is rolling out and so those that did receive those are part of round one so they can fill that out along with a qualifying event such as excess moisture maybe last spring or dryness towards the end of growing season last year, something that reduced yield that caused that indemnity did qualify them for those payments.”
Weuve says there will probably be a second round for the program.
“If you didn’t get a pre-filled application, maybe check with the FSA office if you did have an insurance indemnity check in there. Realize one of the big questions we get is there’s a dollar amount on there, but round payment only pays 35 % of that amount. So some people looked at that and said, oh, they’re going to get a pretty sizable payment. In reality, it’s only a 35 % of that here in round one. And then as we move into fall, it sounded like round two might expand into people that just had enough yield that they didn’t get indemnity but still did suffer loss. That might be part of round two funding here in a couple months.”
The SDRP is through the USDA.
