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 ...

During the next few weeks, farm operators will be finalizing their crop insurance decisions for the 2025 crop year. March 15 is the deadline to purchase crop insurance for the 2025 crop year. The 2025 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Lawmakers are looking at boosting subsidies for supplemental, area-based crop insurance policies to induce growers to buy higher levels of coverage, which could potentially reduce the demand from farm ...

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.

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 ...

Current snowpack in the headwaters of the North Platte River Basin continues to be below average. Wyoming reservoir water ...

In a major development for the wine industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency this summer plans to try out new crop insurance coverage in California to protect growers ...