Tag: crop insurance
Farm and Food File: Again with the crop insurance?
Suggestions on how to change the 2012 farm bill are popping up faster than jack-o'-lanterns. Like this gap-toothed hallmark of Halloween, however, most are hollow, scary and shed little light.
Disaster Assistance Programs protect farmers from unforseeble circumstances
Insurance can be a great form of protection for the unforeseeable. The Farm Service Agency offers the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program, which provides financial assistance to producers that plant non-insurable crops and suffer a low yield, a loss of inventory, or prevented planting occurs due to a natural disaster.
Farmers pushing fieldwork nonstop
After the wettest spring on record, Ohio farmers finally got a break in the weather last week.
Risk management agency approves Refuge Advanced for pilot program
Program lowers crop insurance premiums for qualifying farmers in 12 states.
