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USDA boosts premium support, adds crops for high-level insurance option

07/29/24 3:54 PM By Philip Brasher

USDA is increasing premium subsidies for the Enhanced Coverage Option, a crop insurance product that provides high levels of area-based yield or revenue coverage.

Boozman lays out farm bill proposals, says it's time to 'get serious' about negotiating or else pass extension

06/11/24 12:34 PM By Philip Brasher

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The top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, John Boozman, staked out his farm bill position Tuesday, releasing a proposed framework that largely mirrors the legislation Republicans pushed through the House Agriculture Committee last month.

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Competing farm bill plans spotlight wide range of policy differences

05/15/24 6:23 AM By Philip Brasher and Noah Wicks

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Ongoing partisan battles over nutrition assistance and Inflation Reduction Act funding have received all the attention but there are plenty of other policy disagreements in the approaches that leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture committees are taking on a new farm bill.

House Ag Republicans release new details of draft farm bill

PLC reference prices would rise 10-20%

05/10/24 4:25 PM By Rebekah Alvey, Philip Brasher, Steve Davies, and Noah Wicks

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Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee are proposing to raise Price Loss Coverage reference prices by 10% to 20% depending on the commodity, while also providing increased income protection to growers under the Agriculture Risk Coverage program and crop insurance, according to a section-by-section summary released Friday.

GOP senators propose subsidy boost for buy-up crop insurance

04/10/24 6:29 AM By Philip Brasher

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Some Republicans on the Senate Agriculture Committee are calling for increasing premium subsidies for crop insurance policies that will cover up to 85% of a farmer’s revenue risk without jeopardizing their eligibility for farm bill commodity programs.

Crop insurance plan intended to 'jump-start' farm bill talks, Stabenow says

02/07/24 6:20 AM By Philip Brasher

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Senate Ag Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow says she's "trying to really jumpstart some serious negotiations" on the farm safety net with a proposal to increase premium subsidies for buy-up area insurance policies.

Lawmakers eye crop insurance expansion

11/01/23 6:30 AM By Philip Brasher

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Lawmakers are looking at boosting subsidies for supplemental, area-based crop insurance policies to induce growers to buy higher levels of coverage, which could potentially reduce the demand from farm groups for ad hoc disaster assistance.

California weighs in with farm bill priorities

03/01/23 7:10 AM By Sara Wyant

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Hundreds of interest groups, trade associations, environmentalists and even a few farmers are submitting their ideas for a new farm bill to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees. Not to be outdone, representatives of key California departments recently submitted their own 2023 farm bill recommendations in a letter to chairpersons and ranking members.

Little-used insurance products get second look amid soaring prices, costs

02/16/22 6:53 AM By Philip Brasher

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A crop insurance policy that was supposed to ensure cotton growers could make do without traditional commodity programs never fulfilled its promise after hitting the market in 2015. But amid sky-high market prices and input costs this year, southern farmers say buying the policy is looking more and more like a no-brainer.

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Seven cases of New World screwworm have been detected on U.S. soil. USDA Undersecretary for Food Safety Mindy Brashears says the Food Safety Inspection Service's 7,000 inspectors are “leading the animal health charge” in the fight against New World screwworm.

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