ECO insurance has been around for several years, but was not considered on a widespread basis due to the relatively high premium rates for ECO coverage and limitations for SCO coverage. That scenario ...

The deadline to purchase crop insurance for corn and soybeans for the 2024 crop year is March 15. The 2024 spring prices for corn and soybean will be reduced substantially from the base price levels ...

USDA is increasing premium subsidies and expanding the number of crops eligible for the Enhanced Coverage Option, a crop insurance product that provides high levels of area-based yield or revenue ...

You have a big deadline approaching. By March 15, you need to make your crop insurance decisions for this crop season. Jamie Wasemiller, market analyst for Gulke Group and owner of Wasemiller ...

According to Cole Patrick, director of insurance strategies at Compeer Financial, farmers need to take a serious look at their crop insurance strategies before the 2025 deadline because last year’s ...

A crop insurance policy that was supposed to ensure cotton growers could make do without traditional commodity programs never fulfilled its promise after hitting the market in 2015. But amid sky-high ...

Perhaps this year's farm bill election decision takes more thought than in the past. Part of this is because the reference price for PLC (Price Loss Coverage) and ARC-CO (Agriculture Risk Coverage) ...

Kansas State University agricultural economists are encouraging farmers to make time now to fully think through their options in advance of upcoming deadlines for federal farm and crop insurance ...