Marcia Bunger

The country’s oat and rye producers can now benefit from revenue protection, a new crop insurance option available through the USDA.  After listening to growers, the Risk Management Agency expanded the Small Grains Crop Provisions to offer revenue protection for 2023 oat and rye crops.   “This ...

Among RMA’s efforts in educating crop insurance agents adjusters and policyholders, “RMA has invested 3.19 million since 2021 those involved partnerships with 25 projects across the country," noted RMA administrator Marcia Bunger.  She added an additi...

Last week, the Department of Agriculture announced a $2.2 million award to 16 organizations to educate historically underserved producers, small-scale farmers and others.  The award from USDA's Risk Management Agency funds farm risk management and climate-smart farm practices.  US...

The USDA has updated three key crop insurance options for livestock producers to offer better protection and flexibility. The options are Dairy Revenue Protection, Livestock Gross Margin, and Livestock Risk Protection. The Risk Management Agency revised the insurance options to reach more producers and better meet the needs of America’s swine, dairy, and cattle operations. The ...

Thanks to COVID, the farm industry had tried to become more flexible. That's certainly been true in the world of crop insurance where deadlines and getting signatures rule the day. During the course of the pandemic, the USDA has granted several flexibilities along those lines for crop insurance operations ...

The USDA is in the final stages of making changes to crop insurance rules for apple growers. Apple growers, are nearing the end of what has been a four-year USDA reevaluation of your crop insurance program and USDA has just put out its final proposed changes in the program for apples ...