Recently, private crop insurance companies have captured over 40 percent of the annual subsidies for the federal crop insurance program, the purposes of which have expanded well beyond the program’s ...

The federally subsidized crop insurance program guarantees that farmers will receive close to their expected revenues every year while relying on a costly delivery system operated by private insurance ...

Mike Pearson tells us how the new year will bring major changes to agricultural policy and crop insurance. As 2026 gets ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins recently announced major updates to federal crop insurance, reducing red tape for farmers, modernizing long-standing policies, and expanding access to ...

Federally subsidized crop insurance made record-high payouts last year. While climate change is making farming more risky, the federal program often shields producers at taxpayer expense. Some argue ...

As part of the latest deal to avoid a government shutdown, Congress passed a yearlong extension of the 2018 farm bill, which expired earlier this year. And while bipartisanship in Washington can be ...

From field hearings in Morton buildings to sweet corn feeds at county fairs, farmers have been practicing a refrain this summer: Hands off the federal crop insurance program. The mantra was loud, too, ...

It’s been a hectic couple of weeks in Congress. In a historically unprecedented vote, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was removed from the speakership in a putsch led by Representative Matt Gaetz ...

FARGO, N.D. -- Despite strong support from most farmers and farm groups, the federal crop insurance program is getting a bad rap in Washington, D.C., a veteran crop insurance official says. "People ...

The Federal Crop Insurance Act, passed in 1938 initially was an experiment designed to help agriculture recover from the double whammy of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl years. The act created the ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced updates to federal crop insurance, reducing red tape for farmers, ...

The USDA on Friday said federal crop insurance access will be expanded via a final rule from the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. to amend its regulations in compliance with the "One Big Beautiful Bill" ...