Farm Aid's Family Farm Disaster Fund

If you are a farmer dealing with disaster, please visit our Help for Farmers page.
If you would like to donate to the Family Farm Disaster Fund, please click here.

The Family Farm Disaster Fund was established by Farm Aid to help farm families survive weather-related disasters. Right now, we are working with farmers across the country who have been hurt by devastating flooding and severe weather in Iowa, Wisconsin and seven other mid-western states.

Farm Aid is helping family farmers through this disaster by:

Providing emergency funds for families to allow them to buy food and cover family living expenses. Through churches and service agencies operating in the region, Farm Aid ensures that the money goes to farm families most in need.
Supporting emergency hotlines which provide legal, financial and emotional counseling to struggling farmers.
Providing legal and financial counseling to farmers in danger of losing their farms. When farmers need help to avoid foreclosure due to losses from natural disasters, Farm Aid funded groups are there to help them save their farm.

Through workshops and public meetings, Farm Aid-funded groups educate farmers about available disaster assistance in each state. Donations to the Family Farm Disaster Fund will help Farm Aid directly address the needs of farms in crisis. Please help Farm Aid help them.

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Latest Responses

Flooding in Northern Midwest

March 27, 2009
Farm Aid is working with local groups in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota to monitor the flood situation and its effects on farmers. Already at the beginning of this crisis, we've heard reports of farm buildings looking like islands in the middle of flooded fields. Other farmers are creating dirt piles in still-dry fields in the hopes that it gives their livestock somewhere to seek higher ground to escape floodwaters. We will continue to work with groups in the affected region to coordinate a response to help farmers.