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Taxpayers spent nearly $40 billion on crop insurance premiums between 2001 and 2020 across a 13-state region that includes Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and South Dakota, according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has paid out a record $4.24 billion in claims for acres farmers couldn’t plant this year. The “prevented planting”...
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Funding for crucial safety net programs for thousands of Texas farmers expires Sept. 30. Congress has four working days to act.From The Texas…
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The first version of the 2018 farm bill has only minor changes to one of the programs most farmers hold dear and what’s widely seen as their primary...
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Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts says President Donald Trump promised not to cut a key crop insurance program that benefits Kansas farmers. The promise comes…
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A Kansas farmer testified earlier this week before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry about the importance of growers having…
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Crop insurance has come under fire in some quarters over the past few months. While this subsidized federal program remains very popular among many…
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Support for crop insurance programs is nearly unanimous among farmers, reports The High Plains and Midwest Ag Journal. These same farmers also oppose any…
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Ag Journal Online is reporting a new yield exclusion provision for calculating crop insurance coverage. The provision is coming to the aid of farmers just…
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Across the Corn Belt, farmers are signing up for Farm Bill support programs and which ones they choose will impact the overall price tag for…