Extension offers information and resources to help prepare for and recover from the effects of weather and climate catastrophes, including damage to homes, buildings, crops and lawns, as well as tools for financial recovery.
General preparedness
Home and financial management
- Cold weather rule keeps the heat on
- Dealing with and preventing ice dams
- Financial recovery after disaster
- Framing and air sealing homes in cold climates
- Keep your home warm and safe in winter
- Protecting your private well during drought
Yard and garden
- Auditing home lawn irrigation systems
- Conserving water on drought-affected lawns
- Gardening in hot weather
- How excessive heat affects the vegetable garden
- How a heatwave affects garden pests
- How to manage flood damage to trees
- Hot weather and plant diseases
- Protecting trees and shrubs in winter
- Repairing flooded lawns
- Storm damage to landscape trees
- Water wisely: Start in your own backyard
- Watering the yard and garden in extreme drought
- Watering tips for fruit crops during dry spells
Farm safety
- Being stressed can compromise farm safety
- Creating farm emergency action plans
- Dealing with damaged ag buildings
- Develop a heat and air quality safety plan for your farm workers
- Plan ahead to manage on-farm snowmelt
- Prevent roof collapses from snow and ice
- Reducing fire risk on the farm
Crops
- Alfalfa during drought
- Crop insurance and tax considerations for when extreme weather impacts your crops
- Hail damage to soybean crops
- Harvesting drought-stressed corn for silage
- Heat stress on small grains
- Wheat flooding and waterlogging
- Wind and hail damage on corn
Fruit and vegetable farming
- Climate resilience resources for vegetable growers in Minnesota
- Drought monitoring and irrigation for apples and grapes
- Food safety for flooded fields
- Watering tips for fruit crops during dry spells
Forestry
- Drought in Minnesota’s woodlands
- Managing drifting snow with living snow fences
- Managing wind-damaged forests
Livestock
- Managing drought-stressed horse pastures
- Caring for chickens in cold weather
- Feeding dairy cattle in a drought
- Heat stress in swine affects production
- Managing heat stress in feedlot cattle
- Preparing your cattle for severe winter weather
- Preparing your swine barn for winter
Reviewed in 2025