In the United States, farmers have access to federally subsidized crop insurance — a backstop that affords them some peace of mind in the face of extreme weather. When droughts, floods, or other ...

Columnist Kent Thiesse writes about the likelihood that 2026 crop insurance indemnity payments will be solely based on ...

Margin protection insurance designed to protect farmers from increased input costs is being expanded to more than 1,000 additional counties in 2024 due to producer interest, USDA’s Risk Management ...

OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers in most of the larger corn-producing states in the Midwest and Plains states appear on schedule to meet their crop insurance final planting dates to protect their coverage ...

Due to the strong yield potential in many areas of the upper Midwest, the number of corn and soybean producers that qualify for 2025 crop insurance indemnity payments may be limited. However, there ...

For the entire crop insurance program, crop insurance payments relative to total premiums for the 2025 crop year were below the average for the last 10 years. Corn and soybeans had lower relative ...

OMAHA (DTN) -- A large share of corn production has now moved into the late planting period during the past week. There is already a lot of social media chatter from farmers and analysts about the ...

2024 OCT 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Research findings on Insurance are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting out of Urbana, Illinois ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Corn farmers are getting the lion's share of U.S. crop insurance payments on losses caused mainly to drought last year - 63 percent of the record $12.3 billion paid so ...

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