LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Crop insurance companies are looking to drop some of their business in Texas because years of drought conditions have resulted in the filing of more claims. Joe Brown who has ...

Andrew Burdock, CEO of Insure.ag, says he saw a strong need for specialty crop growers to have data to make better decisions on the amount of risk they undertake with a crop insurance policy. Burdock, ...

WASHINGTON — All 16 private insurance companies that participate in a federal crop insurance program have signed off on a plan designed to cut their subsidies by $6 billion over the next 10 years. The ...

The government could save taxpayers "hundreds of millions per year" by reducing crop insurance companies’ rate of return on the program in line with market conditions, according to the Government ...

Farming is risky. Success depends on the weather, and the weather is getting more extreme and less predictable. Taxpayers help protect farmers with federally subsidized crop insurance, and that ...

Farming is risky. Success depends on the weather, and the weather is getting more extreme and less predictable. Taxpayers help protect farmers with federally subsidized crop insurance, and that ...

NOTE: This column is copyrighted material, therefore reproduction or retransmission is prohibited under U.S. copyright laws. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday said the crop insurance industry ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Though it doesn't draw much attention outside agriculture, March 15 was an important day in Upper Midwest ag. It's the annual deadline for purchasing or modifying federally ...

A nonpartisan watchdog found that some farmers received more than $3 million in federal crop insurance subsidies and that much of the program’s funds were paid to insurance companies for ...

Heavy rainfall, snow melt and flood conditions along the Missouri River have added to an already wet spring for farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains. Farmers and ranchers in the flooded areas ...