As has been often said with farming ... “every year is different,” and many times decisions for the current crop year are based on what happened in the previous year or two. That could be the scenario ...

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 ...

With only a few notable exceptions, grain, oilseed and specialty crop prices are lower than last year at this time. Some ...

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 ...

February is an important month for sunflower producers, as well as market analysts, for a couple reasons: one, the discovery process in determining 2025 crop insurance price elections for sunflowers ...

Mike Pearson tells us how the new year will bring major changes to agricultural policy and crop insurance. As 2026 gets ...

As the middle of February approached, the sunflower market was watching the ongoing crop insurance price discovery process and also considering USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates ...

USDA’s final rule for Stage 2 of the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) delivers the long-awaited second tranche of congressionally authorized natural disaster funding, with applications due ...

A nonpartisan watchdog found that some farmers received more than $3 million in federal crop insurance subsidies and that much of the program’s funds were paid to insurance companies for ...

USDA’s SDRP Stage 2 shallow-loss formula relies on spring prices, often missing real harvest-time revenue losses for insured ...