Advocates of conservation practices and cover crops are looking to speed up the development of new crop insurance products by going around USDA to start testing coverage for growers who want to ...

During the next few weeks, many farm operators will be finalizing their crop insurance decisions for the 2020 crop year. The deadline to purchase crop insurance for the 2020 crop year is March 16.

Crop insurance companies and their agents have spent years fighting off cuts in Congress or at USDA. Now, they're arguing limits imposed more than a decade ago are unfairly shrinking returns for ...

Advocates of conservation agriculture have long insisted that farmers who adopt use of practices such as cover cropping and no till or reduced till cultivation can improve the water-holding capacity ...

Tronson claimed he lost $540,142 worth of crops in 2019 due to rain, according to a plea agreement. NAU denied coverage for roughly 50% of that claim, according to court documents. He faced up to five ...

McBee admitted to engaging in fraudulent activity from 2018 to 2020 that caused an economic loss to the U.S. Department of Agriculture of more than $4 million. According to court documents, McBee ...

A Gallatin man whose family farming operation is the setting of a reality TV show pleaded guilty in federal court last week to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving federal crop insurance ...