1. Dr. Jimmy Tickel Emergency Programs, NCDA & CS
AERT Program
Dr. Jimmy Tickel
Emergency Programs, NCDA & CS

2. Natural Disasters Agriculture and Farm Communities

3. AERT’s Drought, Hurricanes, Tornados…..
Yancey County luncheon during drought to discuss way forward

4. Ag Emergency Response Teams
AERTs
Goal: provide help to fill the gaps farmers and farming communities encounter immediately after natural disasters
Use what we know works
Add personnel & equipment to it
Bring the program to the local level….

5. What’s needed ?? 24 hr. Emergency Hotline
Feedback from farming communities
Assessment of damage
Five Task areas
Farm access
Harvestability
Fence repair
Tarping
Field Debris removal

6. Plan of Attack Develop/refine web based tools Form response team model
Information
Help exchange pages
Matching the “Have’s” with the “Needs”
Form response team model
Volunteers from NCDA & CS
Expand to local level
Helping hand

7. Web Pages: Information

8. Web Page: Tornado response

9. Web Pages: Links

10. Exchange Sites

11. Web Exchange Site

12. AgERT: Response Teams Teams Number of Personnel ** CHAIN SAW 15
TARPING 24
FIELD DEBRIS 36
FENCE REPAIR 31
HARVESTABILITY 23
** Most personnel volunteered for more than one team

13. Mission Flow: Request Assess/Farm County EOC State EOC AgEOC Extension
NCDA & CS
Farmers
County EOC
Request for Team
State EOC
AgEOC
Coordinate activation/ deployment

14. Mission Flow: Activation
AgEOC
Coordination of available resources with prioritized requests
Commissioner’s Objectives
Community/ Industry Response
Resource availability

15. Mission Flow: Deployment
County
Farm
Task
Teams will work at discretion of requesting county
NCDA & CS will have input through Team leader and County EOC rep.

16. AERT Trailers

17. Equipment Two trailers 6’ x 12’ single 3500 lb axle Staged: Kinston
Morganton

18. State HS grant Seed the AERT concept to the local level
Expand the Web based tools
Add another equipment trailer

19. State HS grant Goal: Stage 1 Take AERT concept to DPR County 1

20. X 3 State HS grant Goal: Stage 2 DPR County 1 County 3 County 4

21. Partnerships Farm community ownership Partnerships
State and Local Govt.
Groups and Associations
Farm Bureau
Grange
Rural Center
Faith Based Groups

22. State HS grant What counties do you recommend?? DPR County 1 County 2