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This is a checklist intended to help coastal Maine community members identify and adapt to flood risks.

CISA's financial and technical assistance page, including state, federal, and non-profit grants and funding sources, as well as extreme weather and disaster response.

Draws together a wide range of resources for farms in transition to more climate change resilient production, processing, storage and distribution practices. Includes videos, resilience planning, best practices, and resources for underserved farmers.

This USDA website provides forecasts for heat stress on cattle to inform livestock managers on when preventative action should be taken to protect their animals.

Crop Production and Protection (CPP) National Programs deliver technical, science-based information, genetic resources, and technologies for increased crop productivity, economically and environmentally sustainable methods of crop production, and protection from plant diseases and pests.

Excellent charts on cover crop types divided by cool or warm season, and grass, legume, or broadleaf. Also has a chart on crop sequence effects, as well as one-page fact sheets on characteristics and growing conditions of 65 different cover crops.

This resource shows a GIS map of changes in the minimum annual rate of water carried by rivers and streams across the country based on the long-term rate of change from 1940-2016.

A list of the best cover crops by need, including reducing compaction, weed suppression, increasing soil nitrogen, mycorrhizal fungi association, and more.

Enter your ZIP or Postal code to see the average first and last frost dates for your location (based on the nearest weather station), as well as the length of your growing season based on frost dates.

Air quality current and forecasted data by location. Also includes historical archives, fire information, and the option to sign up for alerts.

The main questions this tool helps the user answer are: 1) What are the climate adaptation and/or mitigation strategies that might be most appropriate for my operation? 2) How should I make decisions about implementing these strategies? 3) How will I know if I have achieved success with a given strategy? This tool is designed as a template, or “open workbench” for the user to enter information based on their operation and goals. The tool is not a diagnostic tool and does not recommend specific solutions for a given climate related production issue. The tool can be used across any farming system and allows you to choose strategies based on your own ideas and research, reflecting the realities of your farm system, location, microclimate, local markets, or other relevant variables.

Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. It is operated by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and provides access to the largest natural resource information system in the world. NRCS has soil maps and data available online for more than 95 percent of the nation’s counties and anticipates having 100 percent in the near future. The site is updated and maintained online as the single authoritative source of soil survey information. Soil surveys can be used for general farm, local, and wider area planning.

A summary of how a handful of RI vegetable farms used high tunnels to adapt to a changing climate, including season extension, summer shade, and protection from heavy rains.

Resources on Climate Smart practices, agricultural reports, resources, and maps, farmer assistance programs, grants and funding opportunities, networks, news, and events. Focused on the Upper Valley area of Vermont, but applicable to most Vermont farmers.

The Viability Program provides a range of services, from in-depth long-term business planning to short-term specialized assistance, including Business Planning, Enterprise Analysis, Financial Record-keeping and Management, Marketing and Sales, Human

IPM pest and disease modeling and forecasting. Includes pest-specific data and other factors such as growing-degree days.

This is a collection of tools, resources, publications, etc that help farmers in Maine adapt to the effects of climate change.

This short technical bulleting provides an overview of the concepts of sound on-farm water management: a systems approach towards controlling water on a farm in a manner that provides for the beneficial management of water for satisfying the irrigation and drainage needs of a crop under the constraints imposed by the prevailing physical social, governmental, and production systems.