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Important Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Florida
VALDOSTA, Ga., Nov. 16, 2015 - The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds growers of the November 30 deadline to purchase crop insurance in Florida.
Crop insurance coverage is available for avocado fruit in Miami-Dade County. Growers need to buy, review, or modify their crop insurance policies before the sales closing date has passed. Crop insurance provides…
Important Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Florida
VALDOSTA, Ga., Nov. 5, 2015 - The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds growers of the November 20 deadline to purchase crop insurance in Florida.
Crop insurance coverage is available for blueberries in Alachua, Citrus, De Soto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lake, Marion, Pasco, Polk, Putnam, and Sumter counties. Growers need to buy, review, or modify…
Important Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Florida
VALDOSTA, Ga., Nov. 3, 2015 – USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds forage, livestock, and honey producers of the November 15 deadline to purchase crop insurance in Florida. Acreage intended for grazing and haying is insurable under the Pasture, Rangeland and Forage (PRF) program. Colonies of bees are insurable under the Apiculture program. For 2016, the PRF and Apiculture…
Important Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Florida
VALDOSTA, Ga., Sept. 16, 2015 - The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds growers of the September 30 deadline to purchase crop insurance in Florida. This deadline applies to crop insurance policies for potatoes in Charlotte, Collier, Flagler, Highlands, Indian River, Lee, Manatee, Okeechobee, Putnam, St. Johns, and Suwannee counties; sugarcane in Glades, Hendry, Martin, and Palm Beach…
Important Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Florida
VALDOSTA, Ga., July 30, 2015 - USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds Florida cabbage growers of the August 15 deadline to purchase crop insurance. This applies to policies for cabbage grown in Alachua, Flagler, Hillsborough, Manatee, Putnam, and St. Johns counties. Growers need to buy, review, or modify their crop insurance policies before the sales closing date has passed. Crop…
Important Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Florida
VALDOSTA, Ga., July 13, 2015 - USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds growers of the July 31 deadline to purchase crop insurance in Florida. This applies to crop insurance policies for fresh market tomatoes in Broward, Charlotte, Collier, De Soto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Polk, Sarasota, and St. Lucie counties. This also applies…
Important Crop Insurance Deadline Near for Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina Producers
VALDOSTA, Ga., May 12, 2015 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds all producers, including, fruit, vegetable and nursery producers, that they need to have their Highly Erodible Land Conservation (HELC) and Wetland Conservation (WC) Certification form (…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina
VALDOSTA, Ga., Apr. 16, 2015 - The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds nursery growers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina of the May 1 deadline to purchase crop insurance. Nursery growers who already have coverage under the federal crop insurance program need to renew or modify their crop insurance policies before the sales closing date has passed. Growers applying for…
Important Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Florida
VALDOSTA, Ga., April 1, 2015 - The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds citrus tree and fruit growers in Florida of the April 15 deadline to purchase crop insurance. Growers need to buy, review, or modify their crop insurance policies before the sales closing date has passed. Crop insurance provides protection against crop production losses due to natural perils such as drought, hail,…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Florida
VALDOSTA, Ga., Feb. 12, 2015 • The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds farmers of the February 28 sales closing date for crop insurance in Florida. This applies to crop insurance policies for corn, cotton, peanuts, and soybeans. Also included is flue-cured tobacco in Alachua, Columbia, Gadsden, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison and Suwannee counties and grain sorghum in Calhoun,…