“We’re heading for March Madness, and it has nothing to do with college basketball,” says Steve Johnson, retired Iowa State University Extension farm management field specialist. The madness farmers ...

A comprehensive crop insurance plan creates a great foundation for your farm. It helps you manage risk and determine what other marketing tools to use. Beyond the traditional crop insurance programs, ...

“As crop insurance decisions loom for farmers, we expect these two new online tools will help ease the process,” says Gary Schnitkey, U of I agricultural economist and a member of the farmdoc team ...

The deadline to purchase crop insurance for corn and soybeans for the 2024 crop year is March 15. The 2024 spring prices for corn and soybean will be reduced substantially from the base price levels ...

Drop crop insurance? Choose cheaper options? The decision boils down to how much risk you and your lender will accept.

USDA is expanding and enhancing crop insurance products for fruits, vegetables and other specialty crops and considering some additional steps that could help address the sector’s priorities. “It’s ...

Alfalfa and forage growers may want consider an insurance program that can help them cover financial risk. Glenda Blindert, a crop insurance agent at Blindert Insurance Agency, Salem, South Dakota, ...

The crop insurance industry, today a $3 billion or more enterprise, was essentially created by a sequence of government subsidies and mandates initially authorized under the 1980 Federal Crop ...

Fruit and vegetable growers are debating potential options for expanding crop insurance coverage in the next farm bill, including reforms to the lightly used Whole Farm Revenue Protection policies.

In recent years, the federal crop insurance program’s subsidy costs have risen, driven primarily by the growth in total premiums. Much of the recent growth in federal crop insurance expenditures has ...

The deadline to purchase crop insurance for corn and soybeans for the 2019 crop year is March 15. The crop insurance base prices for 2019 revenue protection (RP) and yield protection (YP) insurance ...

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