When the SDRP Stage 2 sign-up started, the rule was that if you had a crop insurance payment that trigged a Stage 1 payment, you could not collect in Stage 2 for quality losses.
That has been changed. There is now a “SDRP Relief Program Stage 1 Application for Quality Losses.” This is intended to compensate producers for the portion of quality loss not already covered by crop insurance.
This application compares the crop insurance quality-loss percentage and the SDRP quality-loss percentage. For example:
- 30,000 bushels of wheat were delivered to the elevator. The elevator price was $5.00 but these bushels had the price reduced by $1.50 for quality issues. That is a 30% reduction by SDRP calculations.
- This application will have a field for “RMA Quality Loss %” (box 23) that is calculated by crop insurance. For this example, assume the box shows 20%.
- The crop insurance calculated revenue to count is $120,000.
- SDRP reduction of 30% – RMA reduction of 20% = 10%.
- $120,000 x 10% = $12,000 additional payment x SDRP payment rate of 35% = $4,200.
What do I need to do?
- If you received a Stage 1 payment and the crop had deductions for quality, ask your FSA office if they have a “SDRP Relief Program Stage 1 Application for Quality Losses” for you.
- Collect all of your assembly sheets for the crop year.
- Enter that data into FSA’s quality calculator here: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/farmers.gov/viz/FSA-DAFP-Quality/Quality-AllCropsOtherThanForage
- If you provide us with the application and assembly sheets, we can help you enter the data and determine your SDRP quality-loss percentage.
- The print out of the spreadsheet and the assembly sheets must be returned to FSA with the application.
- The deadline for this is still April 30, 2026.