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Agriculture is under constant threat of natural disasters, exotic animal diseases, pests, and potential bioterrorism. In the case of agricultural emergency, county, state, federal, and volunteer organizations need to work together to prevent outbreaks and conduct emergency management. One of the challenges in agricultural emergency management is to provide the right information at the right time. Information technology provides a means to assist decision makers, first responders, and emergency response teams in the event of emergency. To effectively cope in an agricultural emergency, a joint effort based on a new concept, the State Agricultural Response Team (SART), has been made in Florida. This paper describes a newly developed web application that provides a communication bridge and much needed resources for agricultural response teams.