“We’re heading for March Madness, and it has nothing to do with college basketball,” says Steve Johnson, retired Iowa State University Extension farm management field specialist. The madness farmers ...

According to Cole Patrick, director of insurance strategies at Compeer Financial, farmers need to take a serious look at their crop insurance strategies before the 2025 deadline because last year’s ...

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 ...

The deadline to purchase crop insurance for corn and soybeans for the 2025 crop year is March 17. It appears that the 2025 spring price for corn will be similar to 2024; however the soybean price will ...

Wheat, corn and soybean farmers soon should have access to information that will help them make an important one-time choice between two types of crop insurance, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., says. He’s ...

USDA is increasing premium subsidies and expanding the number of crops eligible for the Enhanced Coverage Option, a crop insurance product that provides high levels of area-based yield or revenue ...

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 ...

A longstanding complaint here is the utter incomprehensibility of federal milk pricing policy. For years, we’ve joked (mostly through our tears) that only four people in the world understand its ...

The 2021 decision for making the crop insurance and farm bill decisions is all about risk management. With the recent increased crop prices and the volatility in the markets, crop insurance is ...