The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now offering crop insurance for sesame producers nationwide. Beginning in the 2024 crop year, USDA’s Risk Management Agency is expanding the Actual Production ...

While at Minnesota Farmfest on Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the USDA Risk Management Agency is authorizing Approved Insurance Providers to provide producers with up to 60 ...

The U.S. agriculture industry receives billions of dollars ($6.5 billion in 2010) in federal insurance subsidies each year. Farmers buy crop insurance to provide protection against the risk of natural ...

Lawmakers are looking at boosting subsidies for supplemental, area-based crop insurance policies to induce growers to buy higher levels of coverage, which could potentially reduce the demand from farm ...

WASHINGTON, April 9-- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven, a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and Ranking Member of the Senate ...

Livestock insurance enrollment stands at 96%; government pledges to expand coverage to address climate crisis As climate ...

During the next few weeks, farm operators will be finalizing their crop insurance decisions for the 2025 crop year. March 15 is the deadline to purchase crop insurance for the 2025 crop year. The 2025 ...

Boosted by the popularity of forage policies, crop insurance coverage exceeded 500 million acres in 2023, marking the highest level ever. Enrollment in crop insurance has surged 85% since 2016, ...

photo credit: Arkansas Farm Bureau, used with permission. During 2019, nearly 86 million acres of corn, 13 million acres of cotton and 70 million acres of soybeans were covered by crop insurance, ...

THANJAVUR: The crop insurance coverage during the Kuruvai season in the four Cauvery delta districts of Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18-- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency has issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is now offering crop insurance for ...