Paying attention to these five changes could be a game-changer for maximizing crop insurance on your farm in 2026 — a year ...

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 ...

Drop crop insurance? Choose cheaper options? The decision boils down to how much risk you and your lender will accept.

BISMARCK -- Officials think education could increase interest in a new type of crop insurance that also may give farmers who diversify a boost. Whole farm crop insurance became available in North ...

Federally subsidized crop insurance is the elephant in the farm bill pantry and anyone who had any role in pushing the law through the zoo called Congress knows it. What most don't know, however, was ...

Even as action on a new farm bill has stalled, a proposal to boost crop insurance subsidies is generating new debate on and off Capitol Hill. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow is ...

Chris Grotegut has earned a reputation in the High Plains of Texas for farming practices that have helped replenish the region’s depleted aquifer. Just over a decade ago, he began converting his ...

A recent USDA statistic making the rounds suggests that only 13% of U.S. farms purchase crop insurance. This figure is being cited by critics of crop insurance, particularly those interested in ...

Federally subsidized crop insurance is the elephant in the Farm Bill pantry and anyone who had any role in pushing the law through the zoo called Congress knows it. What most don’t know, however, was ...

USDA’s SDRP Stage 2 shallow-loss formula relies on spring prices, often missing real harvest-time revenue losses for insured ...

What a difference a year makes. In 2020, the spring crop insurance prices for corn, soybeans and cotton were near the lowest levels of the last decade (Crop Insurance Guarantees Fall in 2020). Now, on ...