IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

• ECAP - deadline to submit for subsequent acres - September 30, 2025.
• SDRP - Supplemental Disaster Relief Program – Stage 1 - applications mailed to producers with crop insurance losses in 2023 and/or 2024.
• NAP DEADLINE - September 1, 2025 - Triticale sales closing date

ECAP – Emergency Commodity Assistance Program

ECAP has been expanded to include subsequent acres of eligible commodities reported as of August 15, 2025, for program year 2024.

Due to this change, eligible producers have been notified as having additional acres eligible for an ECAP payment. Notification was either by an email from Gov Delivery service or a postcard.

It will be the responsibility of the producer to contact FSA to revise the currently filed FSA-63 ECAP application or complete an FSA-63 ECAP application to include these additional acres. Again, deadline to apply is September 30, 2025.

Eligible subsequent commodities in Cheyenne and Kiowa counties would be grain sorghum and corn. All millet and feed crops are not eligible commodities for ECAP.

SDRP - Supplemental Disaster Relief Program – Stage 1

READ THE LETTER and FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS!

Producers who had crop losses in 2023 and/or 2024 and received a crop insurance indemnity were mailed an application the week of July 7^th. It’s important that producers read the letter that is enclosed with the application as the letter gives the instructions in completing the application. This application IS NOT as simple as just signing your name and returning to the FSA office.

Producers must complete items 16, 17 and 18 in Part C of the application.

• Item 16 - Shares are not the normal crop shares of the unit, in the majority of all cases, the share will be 100 percent to the primary insured on the unit. The application will list primary insured, and SBI – substantial beneficial interest for the policy. For married couples, crop insurance has one policy with the husband normally being the primary policyholder and the wife listed as an SBI. If the husband and wife share FSA payments 50/50, the application will need to be completed the same way.
• Item 17 - Agree to purchase crop insurance or NAP policy.  To be eligible for an SDRP application, producers must agree to purchase a crop insurance policy on the same crop(s) payment is received at a 60 percent level of coverage for the next 2 years.
• Item 18 - Disaster Event - Qualifying disaster events include hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, tornadoes, winter storms, freeze, smoke exposure, excessive moisture, and qualifying drought occurring in calendar year 2023 and/or 2024. Related conditions must have occurred as a direct result of the indicated disaster event. Related conditions mean damaging weather and adverse natural occurrences that occurred concurrently with and as a direct result of a specified qualifying disaster event. Related conditions include, but are not limited to
  • Excessive wind that occurred as a direct result of a derecho
  • Silt and debris that occurred as a direct and proximate result flooding
  • excessive win, storm surges, tornadoes, tropical storms, and tropical depressions that occurred as a direct result of a hurricane
  • excessive wind and blizzards that occurred as a direct result of a winter storm.

Qualifying drought includes only those counties in which the drought intensity was rated the U.S. Drought Monitor as D2 for eight consecutive weeks or D3 or higher level at any point during the applicable calendar year. A list of counties that experienced a qualifying drought in calendar years 2023 and 2024 is available at your local FSA Service Center or online at https://www.fsa.usda.gov/resources/programs/supplemental-disaster-relief-program.

The following Colorado surrounding counties were listed on the qualifying drought list for;

2023

• Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, and Prowers Counties.

2024

• Baca, Kiowa and Prowers Counties
• CCC-902 – Farm operating plan.
• CCC-901 – Member information for legal entities
• FSA-510 – request for an exception to the 125,000 payment limitation for certain programs. This form must be on file for all applicable crop years to be eligible for the payment limitation exception.
• SF-3881, direct deposit
• AD-1026, highly erodible land conservation and wetland conservation certification.

In addition to submitting the FSA-526, SDRP application, producers must have the following forms on file with FSA:

Producers with the following crop insurance policies will have to complete the following actions prior to the county office acting on the application(s).

For more information on the program visit Farmers.gov.