Planting progress across the U.S. has been slow, raising the potential that many farmers will use the prevented planting provisions of their crop insurance. According to the U.S. Department of ...

USDA's Richard Fordyce says a decision on whether to reinstate additional buy-up crop insurance coverage for prevent planting ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16-- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency has issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is extending the deadline for its ...

USDA finalized a rule eliminating the 5% prevented planting buy-up coverage option for crop insurance. The agency said buy-up coverage is unnecessary due to ad hoc disaster aid. Farm groups and ...

FARGO - Many acres of last year's corn crop in North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota have not been harvested. Many producers expected to harvest the corn this spring after the snow melted, but with ...

WASHINGTON (Valley News Live) - Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman and Ranking Member Amy Klobuchar led a bipartisan letter Wednesday urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ...