{"id":27606,"date":"2024-06-29T17:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T21:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=27606"},"modified":"2024-06-29T18:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T22:01:11","slug":"get-your-farm-records-completed-now-before-hurricanes-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2024\/06\/get-your-farm-records-completed-now-before-hurricanes-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Get your farm records completed now before hurricanes strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here is some very timely information for farmers on what they need to do to prepare for a hurricane hit to their farms in advance of any threatening weather. It was published in the <em>Florida Land Steward Newsletter<\/em> this past Friday by Christopher Demers at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GET YOUR FARM RECORDS COMPLETED NOW TO BE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR USDA HURRICANE RECOVERY ASSISTANCE<br><\/strong>Storm season is here. As a part of your hurricane preparation activities,\u00a0 you should have your farm records completed with USDA Farm Service Agency. Within weeks of a major storm or other disaster, recovery assistance for agricultural producers and landowners will likely be authorized. The USDA Farm Service Agency administers several disaster recovery programs aimed at providing financial assistance to farmers and landowners in order for them to clean up debris, replant crops and trees, replace damaged equipment and infrastructure, and implement other recovery activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This part is really important:<\/strong>\u00a0If you have not worked with USDA before, you will need to make an appointment with the Farm Service Agency at your local USDA Service Center to complete some forms and ensure your eligibility when assistance programs become available. Get this step done now if you haven\u2019t yet. For more information about getting started with USDA see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmers.gov\/working-with-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.farmers.gov\/working-with-us<\/a>.\u00a0<br><a href=\"https:\/\/offices.sc.egov.usda.gov\/locator\/app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Find your local USDA Service Center here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/usda-logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/usda-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1132\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is some very timely information for farmers on what they need to do to prepare for a hurricane hit to their farms in advance of any threatening weather. It was published in the Florida Land Steward Newsletter this past Friday by Christopher Demers at the University of Florida. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; GET YOUR FARM RECORDS COMPLETED [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":27609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27608,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27606\/revisions\/27608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}