Disaster Preparedness

Find resources to help you plan for and persevere through disasters

ReadyAG: Disaster and Defense Preparedness for Production Agriculture

http://readyag.psu.edu/index.html

The ReadyAG©: Disaster and Defense Preparedness for Production Agriculture workbook is designed to help farm and ranch owners be better prepared to deal with disasters that can occur on their farm or ranch such as power outages, drought, flood, severe snow- or ice storms, including catastrophic events as tornadoes, hurricanes, fires,

Sponsoring Organization:
Pennsylvania State University Extension

Barnyard Animal Rescue Plan

http://www.nwnc-redcross.org/Barnyard%20Animal%20Rescue%20Plan.pdf

"Your evacuation plan should outline each type of disaster and determine specific scenarios best suited for
each situation. It should include a list of resources such as trucks, trailers, pasture and/or feed which might
be needed in an evacuation as well as a designated person who will unlock gates and doors and make your

Sponsoring Organization:
Marin Humane Society

FSA Disaster Assistance Programs Directory

http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=home&subject=diap&topic=landing

The Farm Service Agency provides assistance for natural disaster losses, resulting from drought, flood, fire, freeze, tornadoes, pest infestation, and other calamities.

Sponsoring Organization:
FSA Farm Service Agency
USDA United States Department of Agriculture

EDEN Extension Disaster Education Network: Agricultural Disaster Preparedness

http://www.extension.org/disasters

The ongoing collaborative work of EDEN’s Disaster Issues Community of Practice provides the best of Extension's research-based, interdisciplinary, educational resources to help people prepare for or recover from natural or man-made disasters affecting their communities, families, farms, or businesses.

Sponsoring Organization:
eXtension

Farmer's Guide to Disaster Assistance

http://www.flaginc.org/topics/disaster/index.php#FGDA

"This book is meant to be a tool to help farmers, their advocates, and their attorneys plow through the rough terrain of disaster assistance programs. It explains how farmers can get the maximum relief to which they are entitled under federal law.

Sponsoring Organization:
FLAG Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc.

Farm Aid

http://www.farmaid.org/

"We know that to keep family farmers on the land we have to increase the number of people buying their good food.

Sponsoring Organization:
Farm Aid

Farm Risk Planning

http://farm-risk-plans.rma.usda.gov/

The USDA Risk Management Agency "helps farmers and ranchers learn how to improve their risk management skills." This program provides information on: Risk Management Planning; Better Marketing Planning; New Enterprise Planning and also has an online Farm Planning Library.

Sponsoring Organization:
RMA Risk Management Agency
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