Federal Crop Insurance Provides Billions in Profit for Insurers, Says USDA December 5, 2023 By Leah Douglas Roughly one-third of U.S. government spending to insure the nation’s crops since 2011 has gone to insurance companies that derive...
Crop Insurance Payouts Rise as Climate Change Worsens Droughts, Floods January 27, 2022 By Leah Douglas Insurance payments to U.S. farmers for crops lost to droughts and flooding have risen more than threefold over the past...
West Virginia Livestock Producers Offered Pilot Insurance Program September 21, 2015 A pilot insurance program is being offered to West Virginia livestock producers to help manage financial risk. The Rainfall Index...
Crop Insurance Options Extended in North Dakota August 29, 2014 U.S. Agriculture Department has announced new supplemental coverage for North Dakota crops through the federal crop insurance program. U.S. Sen....
Federal Insurance Plan Aims to Protect Reluctant Dairy, Livestock Farmers April 23, 2014 By Christine Stebbins A plan in the new U.S. farm law to help dairy farmers limit losses from rising feed costs or falling...
South Dakota Farmer Charged With Filing False Insurance Claims November 11, 2013 A South Dakota farmer is charged in federal court with three counts of filing false crop insurance claims. Fifty-two-year-old Nicholas...
White House Threatens Veto of Farm Bill Over Food Stamp Cuts June 18, 2013 The White House threatened to veto a five-year farm bill on Thursday because of “unacceptable deep cuts” in food stamps...
Starr Indemnity Approved to Participate in Federal Crop Insurance Program February 13, 2013 Starr Indemnity & Liability Co. has received approval from the Risk Management Agency of the United States Department of Agriculture...
South Dakota Tree Farms Agree to Pay $170K in Insurance Fraud Case January 14, 2013 The owners of two South Dakota tree farms linked to a Federal Crop Insurance Program fraud case have agreed to...
N.C. Farmer Pleads Guilty to Million Dollar Crop Insurance Fraud December 26, 2012 Federal authorities announced last week that a North Carolina farmer pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud on the federal...