February is an important month for sunflower producers, as well as market analysts, for a couple reasons: one, the discovery process in determining 2025 crop insurance price elections for sunflowers ...

Scott Graves of the Conaway Graves Group (left), with former Reps. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., and Mike Conaway, R-Texas, at the 2026 crop insurance convention. (Agri-Pulse photo) Crop insurance industry ...

Over the last two years, Federal crop insurance premium subsidies have been raised far more by procedures outside the farm bill than inside the farm bill. Two USDA administrative actions raised the ...

Fasal Bima Yojana: The government provides insurance coverage to offer financial security to farmers in the event of crop damage. Learn how to apply for the Crop Insurance Scheme and the necessary ...

For farmers who grow anything but soybeans and corn in Illinois, buying crop insurance is nearly impossible. Even an insurance agent couldn’t figure out how to safeguard his vegetable and poultry farm ...

Based on yield reports from many areas of the upper Midwest, it is likely that a significant number of corn and soybean producers may qualify for crop insurance indemnity payments in 2024. The excess ...

Climate change is making insuring crops more risky, but the federally subsidized crop insurance program's payouts are up 500%. With a new Farm Bill coming, critics want to rethink the program. Farming ...

Climate change is making insuring crops more risky, but the federally subsidized crop insurance program's payouts are up 500%. With a new Farm Bill coming, critics want to rethink the program. Farming ...

As has often been said with farming, “every year is different.” Many times, decisions for the current crop year are based on what happened in the previous year or two. That could be the scenario in ...

For the entire crop insurance program, crop insurance payments relative to total premiums for the 2025 crop year were below the average for the last 10 years. Corn and soybeans had lower relative ...