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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
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
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
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 […]
