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 ...

The deadline to purchase crop insurance for corn and soybeans for the 2025 crop year is March 17. It appears that the 2025 spring price for corn will be similar to 2024; however the soybean price will ...

“We’re heading for March Madness, and it has nothing to do with college basketball,” says Steve Johnson, retired Iowa State University Extension farm management field specialist. The madness farmers ...

The 2025 USA Rice Outlook Conference featured a discussion on the OBBBA, highlighting its impact on conservation and crop ...

photo credit: Arkansas Farm Bureau, used with permission. USDA’s Risk Management Agency’s Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO) is a new federal crop insurance product available as an add-on to the ...

Wheat, corn and soybean farmers soon should have access to information that will help them make an important one-time choice between two types of crop insurance, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., says. He’s ...

A crop insurance policy that was supposed to ensure cotton growers could make do without traditional commodity programs never fulfilled its promise after hitting the market in 2015. But amid sky-high ...

A longstanding complaint here is the utter incomprehensibility of federal milk pricing policy. For years, we’ve joked (mostly through our tears) that only four people in the world understand its ...

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. -- Crop insurance is always crucial in this part of the world. But it's even more important now that crop prices and farm profitability have plunged, a crop insurance agent said ...