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Producers to Receive Automatic Prevented Planting ‘Top-Up’ Payments | Approved Insurance Providers to Issue Payments Starting Mid-October

The numbers tell the tale: 19.4 million prevented planting acres and more than $1.49 billion in prevented planting indemnities paid thus far […]

From the day our founder set out on horseback to sell crop insurance to his neighboring Texas wheat farmers, ProAg has focused […]

Few steps in the crop insurance process are more critical than acreage reporting. With the reporting deadlines for major crops approaching, ProAg wanted […]

ProAg today announced a purchase agreement had been signed to acquire crop managing general agent AmTrust Agriculture Insurance Services (AmTrust Ag).

The USDA RMA outlines eligibility for 2019 Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) regarding elections for Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC).

The Internal Revenue Service will waive the estimated tax penalty for any qualifying farmer or fisherman who files his or her 2018 federal income tax return and pays any tax due by Monday, April 15, 2019. The deadline is Wednesday, April 17, 2019, for taxpayers residing in Maine or Massachusetts.

Net farm income is expected to rise 8.1% in 2019, according to the latest projection from USDA, but the increase won’t make up for the 17.8% drop in 2018.

Over the past 30 years, many dryland farmers in western Nebraska have replaced conventional tillage fallow with no-till chem-fallow to improve water conservation practices under wheat-corn-fallow or wheat-fallow rotations. However, the long-term sustainability of fallow is becoming a challenge.

As the 2018 Farm Bill programs and policies begin to be implemented, there tends to be a great deal of attention given to the commodity programs for crop producers. But there are important parts of the farm bill for livestock producers as well, and not just dairy.