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Extreme Weather Preparedness for Livestock Operations

The digital version is available at https://publications.extension.uconn.edu/publication/extreme-weather-livestock/

STEP Up with 4-H

FEMA

This guide is designed to partner with FEMA’s Student Tools for Emergency Planning (STEP) Curriculum and encourages program delivery that matches the 4-H model. With anywhere from 1.5 to 7 hours of i…

After the Storm: Home Repairs and Replacement

This is a simple PowerPoint presentation that can be adapted by any state and used to help audiences understand basic insurance and contracting issues that arise when a homeowner begins the process o…

Animal Welfare at the Fair: Heat stress

This article discusses how to maintain good animal welfare and animal care to prevent heat stress in animals as part of the 4-H animal science experience at fairs and expositions.

Preparedness and Resiliency Cookbook

This resource is your guide for making good food choices that are healthy, tasty, quick, and safe to promote resiliency during hardship or natural disasters. This guide provides 21 meals and 5 snacks…

Low-Cost Emergency Supply Kit / Kit de Suministros de Emergencial de Bajo Costo

This fact sheet discusses the importance of having an emergency supply kit. Though prepared emergency kits can be purchased, they are often expensive and may include supplies that you do not need and…

Nebraska Extension: Flood Resources

Info that covers health and hazards, property, emotional and financial impact, crops and cropland, and saturated soil risk.

Local Approach to Discussion-Based Disaster Exercises and Readiness

You live and work in rural Calamity County, home to an award-winning carrot festival and its unique carrot currency. Calamity County suffers from frequent disasters. Helping animals in your community…

Living with Fire in the Mount Charleston Area

PDF of Presentation to accompany Living with Wildfire: Mount Charleston Version

Fact Sheet: Extreme Heat

The Extreme Heat Fact Sheet gives tips on how to prepare for and survive extreme heat events as well as how to recognize heat related illness.

Warm Weather Rules of Thumb for Poultry

Warm weather rules of thumb for commercial poultry.

Coping Financially with Disasters

This resource guides individuals and families needing information on how to recover from economic losses after a natural disaster. How to regain a sense of control and avoid making poor decisions; ho…

Lights Out Cooking: A 72-Hour Emergency Preparedness Cookbook

When the power goes out, Lights Out Cooking: A 72-Hour Emergency Preparedness Cookbook helps you make simple, nutritious meals for your family. Use this cookbook to help your family stay safe, fed, a…

Secure Milk Supply Plans: Creating Plans Through a Student-Led, Processor-Organized Model

Secure Milk Supply (SMS) plans for enhanced biosecurity provide a business continuity strategy for dairy producers in the event of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. During the summers of 2022, 2023,…

Greenstrips: Another Tool to Manage Wildfire

Looking at green stripping as a tool for communities to use in managing wildfire impacts and spread. Fact Sheet 97-36

Storm Damage Cleanup Highlights

This fact sheet highlights key guidelines to help you safely and effectively clean and restore your storm-damaged home. See also the LSU AgCenter “Storm Recovery Guide”.

Stay south of thunderstorm paths, says Purdue University scientist

Describes research on wind behavior during storms.

Identification and Management of Blue-green Algae in Farm Ponds

Provides information on identifying blue-green algae In times of hot, dry weather in particular, blue-green algae (photosynthetic cyanobacteria) and outlines the proper steps to take samples for test…

Fortified Publications

Through a grant funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (award number 2023-67019- 40610), the Building Resilience through Extension Awareness and Knowledge (BREAK) project team …

Biosecurity for Livestock and Poultry Exhibitions

This publication focuses on the health of livestock and poultry used for exhibits. The guidelines are to be used to help the exhibit managers ensure the health and safety of the animals brought to be…

52 Ways to Hazard-Proof Your Finances

The consequences of climate change are substantial and escalating due to the increased frequency and severity of weather events, rising sea levels, and higher temperatures (U.S. Department of the Tre…

Indiana Weather and Climate Synopsis by County

Provides weather forecasts, summaries, historical data and outlooks for Indiana counties. Produced by University of Kentucky.

Plan Today for Tomorrow’s Flood

A Flood Response Plan for Agricultural Retailers publication. Rare planning guide for making a farm flood-resistant.

Disaster Planning Integration Toolkit

The Disaster Planning Integration Toolkit (DPIT) is a web-based application and resource library search engine with a suggested planning process that enables rural communities to use an asset-based a…