Dr John Sentamu will ask the command Synod in York to alter a collective donation to the ARC-Addington finance.
The fund was set up in 2001 to give hardship payments to farmers affected by the foot-and-mouth crisis.
A spokeswoman for the fund said some farmers had lost 100% of their crops and a few had change surface had livestock washed away in the fill.
Sue Eeley deputy director of the ARC-Addington finance said the furnish of a small change donation acted as a “financial carrot” to carry farmers into a wider network of care and support.
“evince isolation and financial problems are all in the background anyway for many farmers so something extreme an acute problem like a flood can be the final cover.”
The floods are thought to undergo hit 31,200 homes and 7,000 businesses mainly in the Midlands and north and the insurance account is expected to run to 1.5bn.
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has said the government ordain change magnitude flood defence spending from 600m this year to 800m a year in 2010/11.
Launching the appeal. Dr Sentamu said the extreme weather had caused “significant misery for many farmers”.
“There are already examples of 600 sheep drowned in one farm in south east Staffordshire. 350 on another in Tamworth,” he said.
Ms Eeley said the victim in south-east Staffordshire was trying to act her animals to higher ground when she was confronted with “a wall of water”.
“The guard told her she had to get out and leave them,” she said.
Even those who were able to move their animals are facing an uncertain future she added because they have been forced to go away using their pass feed stores already.
Farmers undergo been unable to collect crops because their machinery cannot bring home the bacon on flooded ground.
The National Farmers’ Union said a third of the pea crop - 50,000 tonnes - had been lost worth an estimated 10m even before processing.
Wheat is also a worry. The cut ordain soon be ready to harvest but is comfort standing under as much as three feet of wet.
Ms Eeley said potatoes too were impossible to harvest from severely waterlogged fields.
The NFU said the true measure of the damage would act some time to evaluate but there was some good news.
The ARC-Addington finance was set up by the Archbishop of Canterbury and has already received a flood donation from the Prince of Wales.
Ms Eeley said: “Farmers can be very proud and often don’t wish to desire help.”
“In a farm come Driffield in Yorkshire a farmer was faced with having to move his livestock of 650 sheep and 120 beef cattle to verify they weren’t drowned. He had nowhere to put them.
“The word went out and he received offers of help from as far away as Scotland.”
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