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USDA’s Seven Tips to Hurricane Recovery for Farmers and Growers
TIPS
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Growers who have been impacted by a hurricane should these few tips to help with the recovery process:
| | Take pictures of crop and structure losses, |
| | Assess damage to infrastructure and repair critical systems, |
| | Assess crop damage and separate salvageable from unsaleable plants, |
| | Restore appropriate growing conditions, |
| | Scout for insect and plant pathogen pests, |
| | Hold off from fertilizing for a few weeks after the storm and be observant for the development of nutritional disorders, and |
| | If there is a concern that water resources used for irrigation have become contaminated with salt water or agrichemicals, have water tested. |
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