Last November, longtime USDA official Marcia Bunger became the first woman to hold the role of administrator at the Agriculture Department’s Risk Management Agency, which manages federal crop ...

The deadline to purchase crop insurance for corn and soybeans for the 2024 crop year is March 15. The 2024 spring prices for corn and soybean will be reduced substantially from the base price levels ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced (Dec. 5, 2025) major updates to federal crop insurance that agency leaders says is an effort for reducing red tape for farmers, modernizing ...

A new report by USDA’s Economic Research Service demonstrates how federal risk management programs have changed and attracted more specialty crop producers while also investigating the decision-making ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced a far-reaching rewrite of federal crop insurance rules, rolling back decades of red tape while expanding access to risk protection ...

Drop crop insurance? Choose cheaper options? The decision boils down to how much risk you and your lender will accept.

Federal crop insurance has undergone many revisions since its establishment by Congress 95 years ago, but its original intent to keep farmers on the land has remained steadfast. The Federal Crop ...

Growing up on my family’s farm in northwest Missouri, I learned early that agriculture is a business where you can do everything right and still lose a crop to forces outside your control. That ...

American Financial Group, Inc. AFG and American International Group AIG have officially announced the completion of a crucial buyout agreement. American Financial has acquired Crop Risk Services ("CRS ...

You have a big deadline approaching. By March 15, you need to make your crop insurance decisions for this crop season. Jamie Wasemiller, market analyst for Gulke Group and owner of Wasemiller ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba & MOOSE JAW, Saskatchewan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Farmers Edge and Global Ag Risk Solutions (Global Ag), two leading Canadian agricultural companies, announced a strategic alignment ...