The Alberta government has designated flood recovery assistance programs specific to agriculture.
They include:

LONGVIEW, Alta. — People affected by Alberta’s June floods struggle to recover even after media attention wanes and volunteers return to their usual routines.
The struggle can take an emotional toll.
“There’s various stages that people go through in that crisis model,” said family therapist Deborah Smillie of Alberta Health Services.
“The first needs are safety. Then it’s shock, then it’s like the honeymoon period where everyone comes in … and you’re overwhelmed at the generosity of the human spirit. And then people begin to get back to their lives.”
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Smillie explained some of the psychology Sept. 13 at a Longview meeting designed to address the needs of farmers and ranchers during flood recovery.
Smillie said some people might feel rejected and impatient as rebuilding drags on, nearly three months after flood water ravaged southern Alberta.
“When people enter into that phase, it can really affect someone’s emotional and mental wellbeing,” she said.
“Because of the uniqueness of this particular event, people are experiencing that for longer periods of time because there is such unpredictability around the trajectory of when life is going to go back to the new normal.”
Smillie said she encourages flood victims to recognize the stress they’re under and take steps to get proper rest, nutrition and exercise.
Multi-tasking may become difficult because of the many demands to rebuild and potentially fewer re-sources with which to accomplish usual chores.
Drawing support from family, friends and community can help. If it isn’t enough, Alberta Health Services offers individual and family counseling services, grief and loss workshops and de-stressing workshops.
“Make sure you’re having fun,” Smillie said.
“Make sure you’re taking breaks to have some down time with the kids or the grandkids or the neighbours.”
She said independence and self-reliance are ingrained in the agricultural community, but that shouldn’t stop people from seeking assistance if it is needed.
- Help to clean, repair and replace agricultural assets back to their basic function.
- Help to cover part of labour cost for cleanup but not for lost production, income or wages.
- Farm or ranch must be an agricultural operation with yearly gross revenues of $6,000 to $15 million.
- Must be an owner-operated enterprise in which 50 percent of the owners act as day to day managers.
- Repairs to facilities essential to farm operations that cannot be insured.
- Repairs to current site or relocation to area with same sized footprint.
- Repair and replacement of essential fences.
- Cleaning of contaminated well or costs of new well if needed.
- Flood info line: 403-310-4455
- Disaster Recovery Program: 888-671-1111; drpinfo@gov-services.ca.
