Massachusetts News
USDA Authorizes Emergency Procedures for Crops Damaged by Hurricane Ian
RALEIGH, N.C., Oct 14, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is authorizing emergency procedures to better assist agricultural producers with crop insurance in North Carolina and Virginia who were impacted by Hurricane Ian. USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is enabling crop insurance companies to accept later notices of loss and streamlining the loss…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia for Livestock and Milk
Raleigh, N.C., May 27, 2022 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia livestock and milk producers of the availability of Livestock Gross Margin (LGM) insurance for Dairy Cattle and Swine; Livestock Risk Protection (…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia for Nursery Growers
Raleigh, N.C., April 1, 2022 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia nursery growers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2023 crop year is May 1. Current policyholders who wish to make…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Massachusetts for Spring Planted Crops, Whole-Farm Revenue Protection, and Micro Farm Program
RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 15, 2022 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds Massachusetts corn, fresh market sweet corn, potato, soybean, and tobacco growers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2022 crop year is March 15. Growers also have until March 15 to apply for coverage under the…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Massachusetts for Spring Planted Crops, Whole-Farm Revenue Protection, and Micro Farm Program
RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 15, 2022 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds Massachusetts corn, fresh market sweet corn, potato, soybean, and tobacco growers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2022 crop year is March 15. Growers also have until March 15 to apply for coverage under the…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia
RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 1, 2021 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds beekeepers and pasture, rangeland, and forage producers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage under the Rainfall Index program for the 2022 crop year is December 1, 2021. Current policyholders who wish to make changes to their existing policies also have until December 1 to do so.…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Massachusetts
RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 29, 2021 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds Massachusetts clam producers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2022 crop year is November 30. Current policyholders who wish to make changes to their existing policies also have until November 30 to do so.
Crop insurance provides coverage for death of clams due to…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Massachusetts
RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 20, 2021 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds Massachusetts apple, cranberry, grape, and peach growers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2022 crop year is November 20. Current policyholders who wish to make changes to their existing policies also have until November 20 to do so.
Federal crop insurance is…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia
RALEIGH, N.C., April 1, 2021 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia nursery growers that the date to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2022 crop year is May 1. Current policyholders who wish…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Massachusetts
RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 12, 2021 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds Massachusetts growers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage on most spring-planted crops for the 2021 crop year is March 15. Current policyholders who wish to make changes to their existing policies also have until March 15 to do so. Growers also have until March 15 to apply for…