Disaster Assistance

Food Stamps and Emergency Food Programs

• State Food Stamp Information hotline numbers
• USDA's Food and Consumer Service homepage

Keeping Food Safe

• Meat and Poultry Hotline food storage and handling
• Food Safety information
• USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service homepage

Emergency Help for Farmers

• Emergency Loan Assistance for production and physical losses.
• Disaster Reserve Assistance for feed grain, forage and grazing losses.
• Emergency Conservation Program for rehabilitating damaged farmland.
• Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance for noninsurable crops.
• USDA's Farm Services Agency homepage
• Watershed Protection
• USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service homepage
• Coping with Winter
• Coping with Floods
• Coping with Drought

Other Federal Emergency Help for Citizens

• After the Storm Fact Sheets
• Extension Disaster Education Network
• Cooperative State Research Education & Extension Service homepage
• Individual and public assistance
• Disaster News Locator
• Federal Emergency Management Agency homepage
• Flood Cleanup at home
• Reporting Hazardous Substances Spills
• Pesticide Cleanup and Disposal
• Environmental Protection Agency homepage
• USDA Natural Disaster Assistance Booklet
• USDA Emergency Preparedness Personnel

Other Disaster Assistance

• Disaster services of the American Red Cross
• American Red Cross homepage