“It’s March Madness, but has nothing to do with college basketball,” says Steve Johnson, retired farm business extension adviser from Iowa State University. There are days left before the March 15 ...

Cotton farming in the Plains Capital Farm Credit offers crop insurance for farmers in the Texas Plains College Station, Texas ...

Based on yield reports from many areas of the upper Midwest, it is likely that a significant number of corn and soybean producers may qualify for crop insurance indemnity payments in 2024. The excess ...

Many are anticipating a tough year financially for farmers in 2025, but experts urge producers to not let up on their crop insurance policies. The end rows of a corn field north of Mandan, North ...

Farmers face increasing uncertainty from extreme weather, shifting markets, and rising costs, making crop insurance a vital safety net. Choosing the right policy—whether yield-based, revenue-based, or ...

Day to day, running a farm takes a lot of work. “You can see the soybean pods starting to form,” Lee Tesdell, a farm owner in Iowa, said. Farms are facing more and more unknowns due to a changing ...

Crop insurance industry leaders, former congressmen and commodity groups gathered recently for their annual industry conference to highlight the importance of their public-private partnership, the ...

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 ...

As part of the latest deal to avoid a government shutdown, Congress passed a yearlong extension of the 2018 farm bill, which expired earlier this year. And while bipartisanship in Washington can be ...

“The kind of money that I've been talking to Sen. Schumer about is enough for us to do something really good on crop insurance, to fix the dairy program, (and) to do something on reference prices,” ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently appointed several Arkansas farmers to the USDA Farm Service Agency state committee.