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 - December 1^st - Perennial

SDRP payments

Kiowa and Cheyenne FSA personnel have issued the majority of all filed SDRP application payments. Both offices are still holding applications that have PRF and/or Annual Forage units reflected on the application for 2023, 2024 and 2025.

There are still many producers who have been notified that have not submitted the applications for processing. Currently, there has been no deadline announced for the program.

LDP or Loan Deficiency Payments

LDP’s will be a foreign acronym for many producers; as FSA hasn’t paid LDP’s since 2016.

The Loan Deficiency Payments (LDP) program, administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA), offers payments to producers of eligible commodities who choose not to take out a Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) loan when market prices fall below the loan rate. LDPs provide immediate cash flow to producers, helping to manage financial risk and stabilize farm income during periods of low market prices. This program covers a variety of crops, including grains, oilseeds, and other designated commodities. Below is a chart showing Cheyenne and Kiowa counties loan rate and posted county price. To be eligible for an LDP, producers need to sign a CCC-633ez form prior to harvest or before losing beneficial interest in the commodity, that form is available at any local FSA office.

Image

Currently, there are no payable LDP’s on the commodities grown in the counties. FSA will use the lower of the 30-day period PCP or alternative PCP rate to compute an effective LDP. PCP stands for posted county price, but this is not the local price at area elevators. Also, looking at the chart below, pay special attention to grain sorghum, CCC and FSA use hundred weight as the method of measurement.

There are daily LDP rates available at https://www.fsa.usda.gov/resources/price-support/commodity-loans. The alternative PCP can change daily.