American Farm Bureau Federation

USDA Finalizes Supplemental Disaster Relief Program Stage 2

Smith: The American Relief Act, passed in late 2024, authorized the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program, and applications ...

A Wildfire Federal Tax Relief Expires, Victims Await Extension

The wildfire tax exclusion applies to 2020 through 2025. But Congress could make the provision apply to 2026 and later tax ...
AgWeb

USDA Expedites $16 Billion in Disaster Aid Payments: What Crop Farmers Need to Know

It’s the largest portion of the $21 billion in disaster aid approved by Congress at the end of 2024. And this week, USDA announced farmers will be able to start signing up for $16 billion in ...
American Farm Bureau Federation

Understanding USDA’s New Natural Disaster Relief: Part 1

USDA’s new Supplemental Disaster Relief Program explains Stage 1 quality-loss payments and Stage 2 shallow-loss support using crop-insurance and NAP records. Learn how 2023–2024 losses may qualify and ...

Quantum entanglement could connect drones for disaster relief, bypassing traditional networks

Any time you use a device to communicate information—an email, a text message, any data transfer—the information in that ...
AgWeb

When Farmers Can Expect the Next Round of American Relief Act Payments

USDA is currently in the trenches of issuing the nearly $31 billion in total disaster and emergency relief aid to farmers and ranchers in four stages. That money was appropriated by Congress as ...
Accounting Today

Personal casualty loss deductions may offer disaster tax relief

The pace of natural disasters seems to be accelerating with climate change, prompting taxpayers and tax preparers to search for ways to deduct catastrophic losses. Processing Content The Federal ...
The Jakarta Post

Bakamla deploys patrol vessels to distribute disaster relief to Aceh

Bakamla has deployed two patrol vessels carrying a total of 160 tonnes of aid for natural disaster victims in Aceh.