Extreme weather resources

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu

Extension offers information and resources to help prepare for and recover from the effects of extreme weather, including damage to homes, buildings, crops and lawns, as well as tools for financial recovery.

Flood resources

• After a flood

• Cleaning up after a flood

• Creating farm emergency action plans

• Crop insurance: important dates, resources and tax impacts

• Crops and flooding

• Dealing with damaged ag buildings

• Extreme weather resources

• Flooded corn 

• Flooded soybean

• Flooding

• Food safety for flooded fields

• How Minnesota trees can survive floods

• How to manage flood damage to trees

• La limpieza después de una inundación

• Moisture in basements: causes and solutions

• Repairing flooded lawns

• Spring flood preparation tips

• Test your well water after flooding

• Wheat flooding and waterlogging

Summer storm resources

• Being stressed can compromise farm safety

• Dealing with damaged ag buildings

• Hail damage to soybean crops

• Power outages: keep food safe

• Preparing food without power

• Storm damage to landscape trees

Heat and drought

Crops

• Current issues
• Harvesting drought-stressed corn for silage
• Forage supplies are tight: Preserve what you have!
• Alfalfa during drought
• Heat stress on small grains
• Postemergence herbicide applications in hot, droughty conditions
• Reducing fire risk on the farm
• With dry conditions, here’s how irrigators can use water more efficiently
• Strategic Farming: Field Notes

Fruit and vegetable farming

• Heat-loving pests
• Vegetables not yielding well? Blame the heat
• Irrigation recommendations for fruit crops during drought
• Keeping your crew safe in the heat
• Weekly fruit update
• Weekly vegetable update 

• Heatwave makes vegetables misbehave

Homeowners

• Protecting your private well during drought

Livestock

• The Moos Room podcast for beef and dairy covers early weaning for beef calves and other drought-related topics.
• Livestock disaster assistance 

• 10 tips on managing drought-stressed horse pastures

• Feeding dairy cattle in a drought

• Heat stress in swine affects production

• Managing heat stress in feedlot cattle

• Reducing fire risk on the farm

Yard and garden

Water wisely: start in your own backyard includes information on watering lawns, trees, shrubs, vegetable gardens.

• Allow some browning in lawns to conserve water

• Auditing home lawn irrigation systems

• Avoid pruning drought-stressed trees

• Drought in Minnesota's woodlands

• Heatwave makes vegetables misbehave

• Hot weather gardening tips

• How a heatwave affects garden pests

• How is the hot weather affecting plant diseases?

• Planting and maintaining a fine fescue lawn

• Reblooming plants reflect the growing season

• Water-saving strategies for home lawns

• Watering established trees and shrubs

• Watering newly planted trees and shrubs

• Watering the vegetable garden

• Watering the yard and garden in extreme drought

• Watering tips for fruit crops during dry spells

Winter storms and extreme cold

• Being stressed can compromise farm safety

• Caring for chickens in cold weather

• Caring for your horse in the winter

• Cold weather rule keeps the heat on

• Creating farm emergency action plans

• Dealing with and preventing ice dams

• Do you have too much moisture in your home?

• Framing and air sealing homes in cold climates

• Keep your home warm and safe in winter

• Plan ahead to manage on-farm snowmelt

• Power outages: keep food safe

• Preparing food without power

• Preparing your cattle for severe winter weather

• Preparing your swine barn for winter

• Prevent roof collapses from snow and ice

• Protecting trees and shrubs in winter

Tools for financial recovery

• Financial recovery after disaster video series
• Recovery After Disaster: The Family Financial Toolkit