More than 100 land-grant colleges and universities have Extension educators who bring research-based information to agricultural producers and the public, including horse owners.

Over the last decade, the university specialists and educators involved with both equine science and disaster education (preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery) have made significant collaborative strides in developing and publishing resource information. These efforts include materials on three different platforms: eXtension (the national Extension website), My Horse University (a collaborative effort between university equine specialists), and the Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN, a collaboration of disaster educators across the United States).

Webinars on animal disaster preparedness and biosecurity are available on eXtension and My Horse University (enter “disaster” in the search engines), along with a wealth of other equine and livestock information. The EDEN website is an extensive information hub that has disaster-specific information (e.g., drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, animal disease), as well as resources for communities, families, and children dealing with disasters.

A notable effort has been the EDEN Strengthening Community Agrosecurity Preparedness (S-CAP) program, which is a two-day course that facilitates emergency managers and agriculture/ livestock owners to evaluate vulnerabilities within counties and develop enhanced agrosecurity plans to address local needs. This process almost always includes establishing response and evacuation guidelines for equine owners. To date, 48 S-CAP workshops have been conducted, which represent 24 states, 285 counties, and 23.7 million residents