Hail Damage - "Hail Know"
While you can’t prevent hail, you can prepare for and respond quickly when dealing with hail damage to crops. Visit the Nebraska Extension Hail Know website to learn more and find resources to help you make informed, timely decisions.
Disaster Assistance for Severe Storms, Drought and Wildfire Recovery
Emergency Loans
FSA also offers a variety of direct and guaranteed farm loans, including operating and emergency farm loans, to producers unable to secure commercial financing. Producers in counties with a primary or contiguous disaster designation may be eligible for low-interest emergency loans to help them recover from production and physical losses. Loans can help producers replace essential property, purchase inputs like livestock, equipment, feed and seed, cover family living expenses or refinance farm-related debts and other needs. Additionally, FSA has a variety of loan servicing options available for borrowers who are unable to make scheduled payments on their farm loan debt to FSA because of reasons beyond their control.
Initial Recovery
CropWatch.unl.edu is a central resource for Nebraska Extension information on crop production and pest management, including flood and storm damage information when the need arises.
Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality Flood Resources:
- Disposal of Flood Damaged Grain and Hay
- Flood Sediment Cleanup
- Natural Disaster Debris Management
- Flood Damaged Structure Demolition and Disposal
USDA Disaster Programs
RMA Prevent Planting Insurance Provision
Prevented planting is the failure to plant an insured crop with the proper equipment by the final planting date or during the late planting period. You must be prevented from planting by an insured cause of loss that is general to the surrounding area and that prevents other producers from planting acreage with similar characteristics.
- Final planting dates and late planting periods vary by crop and by area.
- See your policy or contact your insurance agent for dates and more information about your insurance coverage. Also see this Risk Management Agency (RMA) fact sheet.
Farm Service Agency:
Additional Resources
- Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program
- Flood Recovery Checklists for Farmsteads (NDSU). North Dakota State University Flood Information
- Floods and Your Crops Iowa State University Center for Food Security & Public Health
- Floods and Your Farm Iowa State University Center for Food Security & Public Health
- Flooding and Stored Grain - Iowa State University Extension