Learn how crop-hail insurance protects farmers against hail and fire damage, and discover its benefits compared to ...

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 ...

Boosted by the popularity of forage policies, crop insurance coverage exceeded 500 million acres in 2023, marking the highest level ever. Enrollment in crop insurance has surged 85% since 2016, ...

There were some weary insurance agents in the region March 16. There were plenty of farmers with better-than-usual crop insurance coverage, too. March 15 was the deadline for purchasing or modifying ...

As has been often said with farming ... “every year is different,” and many times decisions for the current crop year are based on what happened in the previous year or two. That could be the scenario ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now offering crop insurance for sesame producers nationwide. Beginning in the 2024 crop year, USDA’s Risk Management Agency is expanding the Actual Production ...

District Development Commissioner Reasi Nidhi Malik today chaired a meeting of the District Level Monitoring Committee (DLMC) ...

March 18--Area crop insurance agents are breathing a little easier this week. Many area farmers, for their part, are paying a little more for crop insurance than they did in 2012, while other ...

The U.S. agriculture industry receives billions of dollars ($6.5 billion in 2010) in federal insurance subsidies each year. Farmers buy crop insurance to provide protection against the risk of natural ...

A cereal rye cover crop grows well in November on this farm in Tama County. Iowa farmers are increasingly planting cover crops as a way to improve soil fertility and limit both erosion and nutrient ...

You have a big deadline approaching. By March 15, you need to make your crop insurance decisions for this crop season. Jamie Wasemiller, market analyst for Gulke Group and owner of Wasemiller ...