If you are considering replacing your freeze-damaged wheat, remember that doing so could have crop insurance implications. On the other hand, the acres will not be insured if the farmer does not have a corn policy. Gary Schnitkey, a University of Illinois Extension farm financial management specialist, has prepared a report dealing with wheat failure and what it means for farmers with crop insurance. Farmers need to contact their crop insurance agents to discuss their specific situations....

That's the message from University of Illinois Extension farm financial management specialist Gary Schnitkey, who has prepared a special report on the topic, "Crop Insurance Decisions Associated with Wheat Failure," located on U of I Extension's farmdoc website (www.farmdoc. That's the message from University of Illinois Extension farm financial management specialist Gary Schnitkey, who has prepared a special report on the topic, "Crop Insurance Decisions Associated with Wheat Failure,"...

The USDA Risk Management Agency regional office in Topeka, Kansas, this week reminded wheat growers that they need to contact their crop insurance company prior to putting their wheat acres to another use either by haying or grazing the wheat or by planting the acres to another crop. The USDA Risk Management Agency regional office in Topeka, Kansas, this week reminded wheat growers that they need to contact their crop insurance company prior to putting their wheat acres to another use...

Perennial crop producers, like orchards, with crop insurance must also notify insurance agents as soon as they suspect that have a loss. Wheat damage must be appraised to make claim Farmers who had wheat damaged by early April's cold temperatures must have the damaged appraised before destroying the crop if they want to make a crop insurance claim. Welcome toPalladium-Item-Richmond, Ind. This article does not have any comments associated with it.

Problems covering those with multi-year losses and coverage gaps left by big deductibles mean crop insurance hasn't become a substitute for federal ag disaster aid, a fact noted by House Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson during the hearing on the crop insurance industry. Problems covering those with multi-year losses and coverage gaps left by big deductibles mean crop insurance hasn't become a substitute for federal ag disaster aid, a fact noted by House Ag Committee Chairman Collin...

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Ian Sample, science correspondent Friday May 4, 2007 The Guardian British farmers are being denied access to the most promising agricultural advances because regulators place too much emphasis on the negative impacts they have on the environment, according to a government body. Advisers urge more emphasis on crop experiment benefits . Science . Guardian Unlimited Skip to main content. Ian Sample, science correspondent Friday May 4, 2007 The Guardian British farmers are being denied access...

What the Congressman from the Big First District saw is a wheat crop that 30 days ago had the potential to produce a record-breaking yield, but that is now reduced to a below average crop with drastically lower yields. A lot of producers don't even worry about insurance on the second crop. Then if they don't have a loss on the second crop the insurance company will pay them the remaining 65 percent on the wheat crop. Farmers are left with some very tough questions to answer as they try to...

Insurance companies, it should be no surprise, like the idea of using the crop insurance program to provide disaster payments. For example, a farmer who insures 75 percent of his normal crop yield could buy a supplemental policy to cover the other 25 percent. Forty cents of every dollar the government now pays on crop insurance goes to those companies, not to farmers. Farmers wouldn't be required to give up those subsidies if they didn't want to, but they wouldn't get the protection of the...