The 2022 crop year saw many extreme weather events, including hail, drought and derechos. Farm Bureau estimates, based on USDA analysis, these events add up to 18 weather and climate disasters, each ...

A drift net being deployed on the Kuskokwim River in August 2021. (Elyssa Loughlin/KYUK) U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has approved a federal disaster declaration for the Kuskokwim River ...

USDA plans to send Emergency Relief Program and Emergency Livestock Relief Program pre-filled applications directly to eligible producers in early summer for those with qualifying disaster losses for ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

AFBF’s Market Intel team has created a series highlighting agricultural losses incurred due to weather disasters and the disaster assistance programs meant to help mitigate their impacts. Previous ...

On Oct. 27 USDA announced the allocation of more than $3 billion to support commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disasters in 2022 through a modified continuation of the ...

Farmers who bought crop insurance in 2022 will receive dramatically less in disaster aid than they have in recent years because of a “progressive factoring methodology” USDA made to the Emergency ...

Destroyed houses and buildings are visible in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., after Hurricane Ian in September. Billion-dollar disasters caused by extreme weather and climate change rose across the U.S. in ...

Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them. Penny ...