Crop Insurance
If pasture, rangeland or forage is important to your farm’s success, insurance could be a valuable risk-management tool.
On Tuesday, Oct. 12, USDA will release its monthly Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates. Gulke Group’s Jamie Wasemiller will be watching several factors in that round of report.
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U.S. crop insurance indemnities are at $1.226 billion as of October 10 after having passed the $1 billion mark at the end of September, above where the totals stood for 2015 crops which was $6.280 billion, according to data from USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA).
Additional flexibility for farmers is being set in place for producers that normally use double-cropping and other changes under the federal crop insurance, according to USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA).
Some farm-state lawmakers are going after situations where some ag economists at some universities are playing both sides of some issues like crop insurance, and profiting by it.
Crop insurance indemnities total $5.482 billion as of Feb. 8, 2016, up about $600 million over the past month, but still the smallest payouts since the 2010 crop year, according to Risk Management Agency (RMA) data.
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