U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins recently announced major updates to federal crop insurance, reducing red tape for farmers, modernizing long-standing policies, and expanding access to ...

As part of the latest deal to avoid a government shutdown, Congress passed a yearlong extension of the 2018 farm bill, which expired earlier this year. And while bipartisanship in Washington can be ...

Chris Grotegut has earned a reputation in the High Plains of Texas for farming practices that have helped replenish the region’s depleted aquifer. Just over a decade ago, he began converting his ...

From field hearings in Morton buildings to sweet corn feeds at county fairs, farmers have been practicing a refrain this summer: Hands off the federal crop insurance program. The mantra was loud, too, ...

Two major trends have defined the federal crop insurance program over the past 12 years: the replacement of farm yield–based insurance with farm revenue–based products and the explosion of area- and ...

Federally subsidized crop insurance made record-high payouts last year. While climate change is making farming more risky, the federal program often shields producers at taxpayer expense. Some argue ...

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 ...

The Federal Crop Insurance Act, passed in 1938 initially was an experiment designed to help agriculture recover from the double whammy of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl years. The act created the ...

CAVE CITY, Ky. (WBKO) — A Barren County farmer has been sentenced to 52 months in federal prison, closing out a years-long ...

A Cave City farmer was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison after pleading guilty in a crop insurance fraud ...

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

From field hearings in Morton buildings to sweet corn feeds at county fairs, farmers have been practicing a refrain this summer: Hands off the federal crop insurance program. The mantra was loud, too, ...