In addition to higher farm payments and better crop insurance, Paul Neiffer says the most overlooked impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill could be how farmers structure their operations.

At least two members of the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. board of directors, who were appointed by former Ag Secretary Tom ...

Pat Swanson, administrator of the Agriculture Department’s Risk Management Agency, and Ken Selzer, the RMA associate administrator, said here Tuesday that RMA is trying to make crop insurance more ...

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 ...

When Iowa farmer and crop insurance agent Pat Swanson was named to lead USDA’s Risk Management Agency in March of 2025, she ...

A series of speakers at the Crop Insurance Industry Annual Convention said here Monday that crop insurance remains the most important part of the farm safety net, but that the ...

As for the Supplemental Coverage Option, most farmers will now only pay 20% of the full SCO cost. Supplement plans such as ...

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” ...

Current snowpack in the headwaters of the North Platte River Basin continues to be below average. Wyoming reservoir water levels on the North Platte River are Pathfinder at thirty-three percent full, ...

Northwestern Texas cotton growers need futures to hit 70 cents by February end to boost crop insurance coverage levels.

American Financial Group, Inc. posted record quarterly underwriting profit in the fourth quarter of 2025, with the Cincinnati ...