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

Drop crop insurance? Choose cheaper options? The decision boils down to how much risk you and your lender will accept.

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 ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced updates to federal crop insurance, reducing red tape for farmers, ...

Seven Kentucky farmers have been sentenced in a multi-million dollar crop insurance fraud conspiracy that cost insurers nearly $35 million, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

It is likely that a significant number of corn and soybean producers in many areas of the upper Midwest may qualify for crop insurance indemnity payments in 2024. Several portions of the region dealt ...

Percy Carroll is easing along the backroads of Matagorda County in southeast Texas, taking note of a 300-acre field of green grass and weeds staggered 1’ to 2’ high. It’s a farmer’s expanded version ...

With the adoption of sustainable farming practices on the rise, more producers may be looking at how double or relay cropping fits into their operations. Sheila Backer, assistant vice president of ...

Larry Walden, a Cave City farmer, was sentenced to 52 months incarceration by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell. Walden pled ...

When agricultural disasters occur, the federal government has traditionally responded in one of two ways: ad-hoc disaster payments or assistance in purchasing federal crop insurance. For nearly two ...

Don Fullerton is affiliated with the University of Illinois' Center for Business and Public Policy and Institute of Government and Public Affairs. He has received funding from the National Science ...

photo credit: Arkansas Farm Bureau, used with permission. USDA’s recently released spring crop insurance prices for corn and soybeans were among the lowest in the last 10 years. Cotton prices dropped ...