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Important Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Georgia
VALDOSTA, Ga., Nov. 5, 2015 - The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds growers of the November 20 deadline to purchase crop insurance in Georgia.
Crop insurance coverage is available for apples in Fannin, Gilmer, and Rabun counties. Crop insurance coverage is available for blueberries in Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Burke, Clinch, Coffee, Colquitt, Long,…
Important Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Georgia
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 Georgia. 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 Georgia
VALDOSTA, Ga., Sept. 16, 2015 - The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds growers of the September 30 deadline to purchase crop insurance in Georgia. This deadline applies to crop insurance policies for barley in Crisp, Jefferson, Pike, and Walton counties; canola in Bartow, Calhoun, Chattooga, Cherokee, Floyd, Franklin, Gordon, Hart, Murray, Polk, Walker, and Whitfield counties; and…
Important Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Georgia
VALDOSTA, Ga., Aug. 17, 2015 –USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds growers of the August 31 deadline to purchase crop insurance in Georgia. This applies to crop insurance policies for onions in Appling, Bulloch, Candler, Emanuel, Evans, Jeff Davis, Laurens, Long, Montgomery, Screven, Tattnall, Toombs, Treutlen, and Wayne counties. Growers need to buy, review, or modify…
Important Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Georgia
VALDOSTA, Ga., July 13, 2015 â USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds growers of the July 31 deadline to purchase crop insurance in Georgia. This applies to crop insurance policies for fresh market sweet corn in Decatur, Grady, and Mitchell counties. Growers need to buy, review, or modify their crop insurance policies before the sales closing date has passed. Crop insurance…
Important Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Georgia
VALDOSTA, Ga., June 17, 2015 - The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds Georgia growers that the final date to purchase crop insurance for cabbage is July 1, 2015. Growers in Brooks, Colquitt, Tift, and Toombs counties need to buy, review, or modify their policies before the sales closing date has passed. Crop insurance provides protection against crop production losses due to natural…
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…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Georgia
VALDOSTA, Ga., Feb. 12, 2015 â The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds farmers of the February 28 sales closing date for crop insurance in Georgia. This applies to crop insurance policies for corn, cotton, flue-cured tobacco, grain sorghum, peanuts, and soybeans. The sales closing date is the last day to buy a new policy or change an existing policy’s coverage level.…