Farmers fear some potential issues arising for USDA’s Emergency Relief Program (ERP) for the 2022 HRW wheat crop. There was a lot of HRW wheat that didn’t emerge last fall, which prompted farmers to file an insurance claim. Some think this could be a potential problem if they don’t approve an ERP 2022 program because the producers that didn’t get crop insurance claims until July 2022 are left out currently.
Comments: A fall-planted crop is eligible for ERP even though it is a 2022 crop provided the cause of loss was in 2021. If a claim was delayed until 2022 but the cause of loss was still 2021, we are told farmers should contact FSA and we anticipate the agency will work through the issue with them.
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