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 ...

Mike Pearson tells us how the new year will bring major changes to agricultural policy and crop insurance. As 2026 gets ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins recently announced major updates to federal crop insurance, reducing red tape for farmers, modernizing long-standing policies, and expanding access to ...

Free farm events in Franklin and Fulton counties offer crop updates, risk management tips and tech insights. RSVP today!

It’s no secret that conservation and insurance will be heavy topics of discussion in ongoing farm bill debates this year. But it’s difficult to understand the exact role each title will play in ...