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The Center for Rural Affairs is applauding expansion to federal crop insurance recently announced by RMA. According to the organization, the changes signal encouraging opportunities for farmers practicing conservation on their operations. This month, RMA announced it will be offering the Pandemic Cover Crop Program for a second year ...

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 ...

Senate Ag Chair Debbie Stabenow and longtime committee member John Thune applauded the USDA announcement on prevented planting acres. The Risk Management Agency is implementing their recommendation to remove the arbitrary November 1st restriction for harvesting or grazing cover crops on prevented plant acres ...

Last week, the USDA announced changes and improvements to crop insurance for hemp. USDA’s Risk Management Agency is adding flexibilities around how producers work with processors as well as improving consistency with the most recent USDA hemp regulation. RMA ...

Small farmers who sells products locally may be eligible for a new USDA crop insurance product coming out soon. Risk Management Agency Acting Administrator, Richard Flournoy, said the new product is a micro-farm policy. "This policy will be available for the 2022 crop year," he noted. "S ...

The USDA has rolled out a new insurance option specifically for agricultural producers with small farms who sell locally. The new Micro Farm policy, announced last week, simplifies record keeping and covers post-production costs like washing and value-added products ...

Not only has production of specialty crops, organic crops, local food, and greenhouse production grown in recent years, but as the RMA's acting Administrator Richard Flournoy pointed out, so has crop insurance offerings in those areas. "All the growth we've had in those programs over the years, as well as the interest in those programs and that we have made a lot of changes to organic and spe

According to the USDA, updates will be in place next crop year for organic and aquaculture producers who used the Whole Farm Revenue Protection Plan. "One of those is we're increasing expansion limits for organic producers to be the higher of $500,000 dollars or 35% ...

The USDA recently asked crop insurance policy holders provided feedback regarding two nationwide pilot programs. The results have led to updates to both the Pasture Rangeland and Forage pilot insurance program and the apiculture pilot insurance program. US... Read More ...