North Dakota farmers will be without a key federal crop insurance option this year as they prepare for spring planting. As part of federally subsidized crop insurance, farmers are insured when the ...

WASHINGTON (Valley News Live) - Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman and Ranking Member Amy Klobuchar led a bipartisan letter Wednesday urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ...

Corn, soybean and rice producers in regions prone to spring flooding are criticizing an Agriculture Department decision to eliminate buy-up coverage for prevented planting crop insurance.

WASHINGTON – National Farmers Union (NFU) submitted comments today to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to restore crop insurance buy-up coverage for acres prevented from being planted, ...

As North Dakota farmers look ahead to planting season, a significant shift in federal policy is leaving them without a favorite financial safety net this spring. For the first time in years, the ...

National Farmers Union submitted comments to the USDA to restore crop insurance buy-up coverage for acres prevented from being planted. NFU warned that recent changes weaken a critical risk management ...

In comments submitted to USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), North Dakota Farmers Union urged RMA to reinstate the “buy-up” option it eliminated for prevented planting crop insurance coverage. The ...

Leaders of the Senate Ag Committee and 17 other senators are asking the Agriculture Department to reverse its decision to remove buy-up coverage on prevented planting. In a letter to Agriculture ...

Sen. Chuck Grassley, a lifelong family farmer and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, joined Sens. John Boozman (R-Ark.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the ...