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SUMMARY:Managing pasture and livestock watering for flooding\, drought and extreme heat events
DESCRIPTION:Location: Chase Hill Farm\, 74 Chase Hill Rd\, Warwick\, MA 01378 \nRegister here \nThis workshop will focus on livestock and pasture management in heat\, drought\, and flood\, including practices for managing and capturing water\, managing forage crops for water extremes\, and efficient methods of providing access to drinking water for livestock. The presenters work with American Farmland Trust’s Thriving Farms and Ranches Livestock Team and can provide risk assessment and planning tools for farms and help them access services from NRCS and will explain the process for accessing this support. Presenters and CISA staff will facilitate discussion of farm-specific challenges and potential solutions.  \nPresenters:   \nMax Breiteneicher is an Apprentice Farm Conservation Planner at American Farmland Trust\, serving on the Thriving Farms and Ranches Livestock Team. In this role\, he helps farmers prepare conservation plans for implementation on their farms and for eligibility to participate in USDA-NRCS programs. Max also owns and operates a grass-based cheesemaking farm in Cummington\, Massachusetts.    \nCaleb Smith is a Livestock and Agronomy Specialist at American Farmland Trust (AFT) and a commercial farmer. He was a professional dairyman for 13 years before joining AFT and continues to be a professional livestock producer on 350 acres. Caleb has had a career-long relationship with Vermont NRCS\, with vast experience using their conservation programs to improve the profitability and sustainability of his own farm. At AFT\, he works to help farmers maximize the profit and environmental potential of their NRCS contracts. \nThis work is supported by the Northeast Extension Risk Management project award no. 2025-70027-45395\, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. 
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/managing-pasture-and-livestock-watering-for-flooding-drought-and-extreme-heat-events/
LOCATION:Chase Hill Farm\, 74 Chase Hill Rd\, Warwick\, MA\, 01378\, United States
CATEGORIES:Climate Events,CISA Events,Farmer Events,CISA Workshops for Businesses
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SUMMARY:Natural Disaster Recovery II Program application support and info session
DESCRIPTION:Need help applying for the new disaster relief funding available to farms through the Natural Disaster Recovery II Program? CISA has been working hard to clarify the details of this new program and is hosting this application and info support session to help ensure local farms can access this funding before the September 30th deadline. The session will start with a brief presentation about the program’s eligibility criteria and application process and a question and answer session\, after which dinner will be provided and farmers will have the opportunity to get one-on-one application support from CISA staff. \nPlease register here to let us know you will attend — this event is free\, but registration is required. \nInformation about the Natural Disaster Recovery II Program: \nThis program is administered by MDAR and funded through a federal block grant. The $42 million available through this program is earmarked to help compensate local farmers for crop and infrastructure losses resulting from extreme weather events in 2023 and 2024. This is a significantly larger amount of funding than was available to farms through earlier disaster relief programs\, so this funding can provide additional relief for farms that were only partially compensated earlier for their losses. It can also cover a wider range of extreme weather events — covering not just flooding and frost damage but also weather events like drought\, heat\, and storms — as well as a wider range of related losses like infrastructure losses and excess labor expenses. \nThere is no minimum farm size to be eligible for funding through this program\, but farmers must have lost experienced an eligible loss of at least $2\,500\, and there are specific eligibility criteria associated with each loss — for example\, the value of crop losses must represent at least a 15% loss of value of the damaged crops and the value of infrastructure losses must represent at least a 15% loss to the value of the infrastructure that was damaged. The kinds of losses that this program can cover include the following: \n\nLosses from crops that were damaged\, destroyed\, or unmarketable (including human food crops\, ornamentals\, and many value-added products)\nLosses from perennials in need of replanting (to compensate for production losses during years before maturity of new planting)\nDamaged infrastructure (including crop-related structures\, livestock housing\, plasticulture\, maple equipment\, irrigation\, and farm roads)\nExpenses for practices to mitigate land loss (including mowing/harrowing lost crops\, cover cropping\, grading land\, restoring ditches\, and providing emergency water for crops or livestock in drought)\nTimber losses (for those with over 10 acres of continuous forest in an active forest management plan)\n\nA video presentation about the program\, including a walk-through of the application form\, is available here\, and other program details are available here. Contact Kristen with any questions about this session.
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/natural-disaster-recovery-ii-program-application-support-and-info-session/
LOCATION:Deerfield Tilton Library\, 75 North Main Street\, South Deerfield\, MA
CATEGORIES:CISA Events,Farmer Events,CISA Workshops for Businesses
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