TAMPA, Fla. — Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson has extended the deadline for the state’s agricultural producers to apply for more than $600 million in hurricane relief funding.
Producers now have until Jan. 1, 2027, to apply for money through the Florida Block Grant Disaster Relief Program, or until the funds run out. Applications will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis.
The funding applies to losses from hurricanes in 2023 and 2024.
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has launched an online hub with information at blockgrant.fdacs.gov.
The program is open to agricultural producers in counties designated as primary or contiguous disaster areas.
Relief funding will assist eligible producers with infrastructure damage, market loss compensation, citrus-specific impacts, including infrastructure and future economic loss and timber damage.