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 ...

Andrew Burdock, CEO of Insure.ag, says he saw a strong need for specialty crop growers to have data to make better decisions on the amount of risk they undertake with a crop insurance policy. Burdock, ...

Change is in the air as Silveus — the nation’s largest independent crop insurance provider — announced its acquisition by Risk Strategies, a private insurance brokerage and risk management adviser, at ...

Farmers purchase crop insurance to protect their crops from things like natural disasters, diseases, insects and market pricing drops. 1. It's all soybeans, wheat and corn. In many Kentucky counties, ...

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 ...

With the farm bill (H.R. 2) expected on the House floor in the next few weeks, farmers, ranchers and many others are urging lawmakers to protect crop insurance. In a letter to House members, the ...

Year after year of drought and intense heat that have cooked crops in Texas also have fueled a clash between USDA and the crop insurance industry that has spilled over into discussions of a new farm ...

The USDA on Friday said federal crop insurance access will be expanded via a final rule from the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. to amend its regulations in compliance with the "One Big Beautiful Bill" ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced a far-reaching rewrite of federal crop insurance rules, rolling back decades of red tape while expanding access to risk ...

MITCHELL, S.D. — Attendees at Dakotafest in Mitchell got the chance to get their crop insurance questions answered by Marcia Bunger, administrator for the USDA Risk Management Agency. Low commodity ...

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