Archive for the "ProAg News" Category

The February 2020 NCIS board of directors meeting brought a change of leadership to the chairman’s position. Kendall Jones, ProAg, became the […]

Every year, ProAg joins with our agent partners to provide a level of security to farmers and ranchers so they can grow […]

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.