Convo 48
Production agriculture is constantly changing. Crop insurance is right there, making sure farmers have a modern and affordable risk management tool at their disposal.
USDA Unveils New Crop Insurance Product: Whole-Farm Protection Insurance
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Specialty crop farmers, organic farmers and diversified producers will now be able to purchase the protection of crop insurance as part of a Whole-Farm Revenue Protection insurance policy. “Crop insurance options continue to adapt to meet the farm safety net needs of today’s farmers,” said Risk Management Agency (RMA) Administrator Brandon Willis. Whole-Farm Revenue Protection, […]
California Drought Causing Weather Extremes in Central Valley
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Weather extremes triggered by the prolonged drought have caused much of the damage to crops in California’s Central Valley in addition to lack of waters, says Doug Benik, a farmer and crop insurance agent from Fresno County. While most assume that the absence of rainfall is largely behind much of the crop damage and losses […]
CROP INSURANCE IN ACTION: Matt Huie, Beeville, Texas
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Bee County in the coastal bend of Texas near the Gulf of Mexico was not spared the crippling drought which struck the state with the worst dry spell in almost a century in 2011 and continued for several years. Matt Huie works on 5,000 acres of row crops plus runs a cow-calf operation, and lives […]