For many growers, grain sorghum fits best as an opportunistic crop—one that can take advantage of timely rainfall, keep input costs in check and improve the performance of other crops in the rotation.

As farmers focus on changes to crop insurance ahead of the March 16 deadline, Ben Rand say some of the most valuable risk tools have existed for years, but there are also key changes farmers shouldn't ...

The "One Big Beautiful Bill" has fundamentally changed crop insurance. Here is how to capture the new ECO and SCO opportunities before time runs out.

Major changes have been made to crop insurance that will reduce the cost and provide more coverage for farmers.

The so-called “One Big Beautiful Act” (OBBA) that was passed by Congress in 2025 made some important changes to provisions that could affect 2026 farm program and crop insurance decisions. This ...

Crop insurance industry leaders, former congressmen and commodity groups gathered recently for their annual industry conference to highlight the importance of their public-private partnership, the ...

Tom Zacharias, president of National Crop Insurance Services, Pat Swanson, RMA Administrator, and Ken Selzer, associate RMA administrator. (Agri-Pulse photo) RMA Administrator Pat Swanson says she's ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency announced last fall that it was eliminating the extra coverage option for prevented planting insurance. Justin Quandt farms near Oakes, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Answers are from the Profit Planners panel: David Erickson, farmer, Altona, Ill.; Mark Evans, Purdue Extension educator, Elkhart County, Ind.; Jim Luzar, retired Purdue Extension educator and Putnam ...

KENTUCKY (WKYT) - Seven Kentucky farmers have been sentenced in a multi-million dollar crop insurance fraud conspiracy that cost insurers nearly $35 million, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.