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USDA Expands Shellfish Insurance Program
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expanding the Shellfish insurance program beginning with the 2025 crop year. USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is expanding coverage to an additional 27…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in New York and Pennsylvania Barley, Winter Wheat, Forage Production, and Triticale
RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 30, 2024 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds New York and Pennsylvania barley, winter wheat, forage production, and triticale producers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2025 crop year is September 30. This is also the final date to apply for margin protection coverage for corn and soybeans. Current policyholders…
RALEIGH RO - USDA Announces Improvements to Crop Insurance for Cherries
RALEIGH, NC, Aug. 28, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced improvements to the Actual Revenue History (ARH) Sweet Cherry and ARH Tart Cherry for Processing crop insurance programs for the 2025 and succeeding crop years. RMA is allowing producers to request a Regional Office (RO) Determined Yield (DY) for any acreage that does not meet the…
USDA Announces Expansions to Grapevine Crop Insurance
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced policy enhancements to the grapevine insurance program, starting for the 2025 crop year. USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is expanding coverage to vines grafted…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont for Forage Seeding
RALEIGH, N.C., July 10, 2024 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds forage seeding producers in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2025 crop year is July 31. Current policyholders who wish to make changes to their existing coverage also have until July 31 to do so.
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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 Livestock and Milk
Raleigh, N.C., May 30, 2024 — 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 livestock and milk producers of the availability of Livestock Gross Margin (LGM) insurance for Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, and…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in New York and Pennsylvania for Apple Tree Coverage
RALEIGH, N.C., March 15, 2024 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds New York and Pennsylvania apple growers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage under RMA’s apple tree policy for the 2024 crop year is April 15. Current policyholders who wish to make changes to their existing policies also have until April 15 to do so. Apple tree coverage insures…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in New York for Spring Planted Crops and Whole-Farm Revenue Protection
RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 15, 2024 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds New York cabbage, corn, dry bean, forage seeding, fresh market bean, fresh market sweet corn, grain sorghum, green pea, hemp, potato, processing bean, processing sweet corn, processing tomato, soybean, spring barley, and spring oat growers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage for…
Crop Insurance Deadline Nears in New York for Onions
RALEIGH, N.C., Dec. 29, 2023 — The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds New York onion growers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2024 crop year is February 1. Current policyholders who wish to make changes to their existing policies also have until February 1 to do so.
Federal crop insurance is critical to the farm safety net. It…
USDA Expands Peanut Crop Insurance for Growers in North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 14, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved expansion of the Peanut crop insurance program to Wake and Jones counties in North Carolina beginning with the 2024 crop year.
“Our goal is to always provide the best risk management resources, so we will continue to evaluate our programs and tailor them to best meet the…