Crop insurance plays a critical role in agricultural risk management by providing financial protection when disasters such as ...

A federal court has denied a crop insurance software vendor's emergency bid to block a USDA bulletin that threatens its ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Kansas announced Friday that a Kansas farmer pleaded guilty to defrauding the U.S. Department ...

He faces up to 30 years in prison, a $1 million fine and up to five years of supervised release, his plea agreement says.

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

As part of the latest deal to avoid a government shutdown, Congress passed a yearlong extension of the 2018 farm bill, which expired earlier this year. And while bipartisanship in Washington can be ...

At a time when farm income is under growing pressure, the One Big Beautiful Bill is reshaping the farm safety net in ways that go well beyond bigger checks or better crop insurance coverage. According ...

During the next few weeks, farm operators will be finalizing their crop insurance decisions for the 2025 crop year. March 15 is the deadline to purchase crop insurance for the 2025 crop year. The 2025 ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — This year marks the 30th anniversary of what is referred to as the foundation of the modern crop insurance program. "The Crop Insurance Reform Act of 1994 came on the heals of ...

Founding father Benjamin Franklin was spot-on almost three centuries ago when he noted — in print, no less — that two unavoidable facts of life were death and taxes. Had Ben been in the “Almanack” ...

Plagued by three storms in fewer than 30 days, Hawaiʻi farmers now find themselves figuring out how reviving their crops will ...