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Natural disasters like weather, wildlife, or plant disease can cause loss to your crops and may be catastrophic for you and your family. With the right planning and guidance, you can eliminate the hardships that a natural disaster may cause to your farming operation.

Wet Spring? Here’s What You Need To Know For Insurance

Your crop insurance policy includes a few additional provisions to help during rough planting seasons that occur due to weather. Replant Your MPCI policy has a replanting provision. For 2018 and beyond, it will be up to an adjuster to determine if your farm was “practical to replant” before you are eligible for a replant

FSA’s ECAP sign up period has begun

USDA’s Farm Service Agency is issuing up to $10 billion in direct payments to eligible agricultural producers of eligible commodities for the 2024 crop year through the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (ECAP). These one-time economic assistance payments will help commodity producers mitigate the impacts of increased input costs and falling commodity prices. Who Is Eligible

How Margin Protection & Gap Coverages Can Protect You Against Rapid Market Loss

With the rapid decline in market price, producers may want to start thinking about taking advantage of higher crop guarantees for the 2024 crop year ahead of the traditional February trading period. Looking at additional coverages right now might pay off come springtime. MARGIN PROTECTION: Margin Protection is an area plan that covers gross profit

Helpful Policy Procedures You Should Know In A Bad Growing Season

Give yourself extra peace of mind by brushing up on these crop insurance policy rules and regulations that can affect your ability to collect insurance claims timely and without major hassles. File your paperwork timely – Deadline for acreage reports is 7/15. You should have already received a paper report in the mail to fill

Double Crop Soybean Initiative

The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds agricultural producers that for the 2023 crop year there may be options for insuring double crop soybeans or grain sorghum and other crops in counties where the Following Another Crop (FAC) practice is not available. Producers intending to plant soybeans or grain sorghum after wheat and other fall

Transitional & Organic Grower Assistance

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Agricultural producers who have crop insurance coverage on crops in transition to organic or a certified organic grain or feed crop are eligible for premium assistance from USDA. The Transitional and Organic Grower Assistance (TOGA) Program, offered by USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), reduces the producer’s overall crop insurance premium bill and helps them continue

Is The New Post Application Coverage Endorsement (PACE) Right For You?

What Is It? The Post-Application Coverage Endorsement, known as PACE, is an endorsement that can be added to your underlying insurance policy which will provide you with additional coverage in the event you utilize post-application nitrogen practice and are prevented from post-applying nitrogen due to adverse weather conditions. PACE can be purchased for non-irrigated corn

What You Can Do When High Costs Limit Profitability

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With no relief from unprecedented input prices anywhere in sight, many farmers are tightening their belts and increasing their efficiency on their farm, squeezing as much profit as they can out of the 2022 crop. What can we do with your crop insurance policy to maximize coverage and limit costs? Here are some things to
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