USDA RMA Allowing Growers to Hay, Graze or Chop Covers & Still Receive Prevent Planting Payments

December 2, 2021 | Posted in Grazing

Source: USDA Risk Management Agency

RMA added this flexibility starting with the 2021 crop year as part of a broader effort to encourage producers to use cover crops, an important conservation and good farming practice.

Scramble to Meet Cover Crop Seed Demand

December 9, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Capital Journal (Pierre, SD)

When 4 million acres of the South Dakota’s crops couldn’t be planted in 2019, there was a powerful need for cover crop seeds. Millborn Seeds Inc. of Brookings was one of the players in the region’s seed business that scrambled to cover prevented-planting acres for their customers.

Time Running Out to Use Cover Crops on Prevent Plant Acres

October 2, 2019 | Posted in Grazing

Source: Winchester, Indiana News Gazette

The announcement by the USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), enables farmers who plant cover crops on prevented plant acres to hay, graze, ensile, or chop those fields earlier than November 1. For 2019, RMA will allow farmers to make forage on prevent plant acres after Sept. 1. Find out more in this article from the News Gazette (Winchester, Indiana).

USDA-RMA Announces Change to Haying and Grazing Date for Prevent Plant Acres in 2019

June 21, 2019 | Posted in Grazing

Source: USDA Risk Management Agency

Farmers who planted cover crops on prevented plant acres will be permitted to hay, graze or chop those fields earlier than November this year, the USDA announced.

Risk Management Agency Announces Special Provisions for Cover Crop Terminations

Extremely wet weather this spring has delayed many no-tillers from terminating fall-planted cover crops.

June 5, 2019 | Posted in Termination

Source: USDA Risk Management Agency

Producers in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin have been severely affected by wet weather and muddy field conditions. Additionally, many acres of failed fall-seeded crops, like winter wheat and barley, have been appraised and released for termination.

Cover Crop Incentive Program Offered in Iowa

December 1, 2017 | Posted in Seeding Practices

$5 per acre premium reduction on crop insurance in 2018 for Iowa farmers who plant cover crops this fall (2017).

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USDA RMA Allowing Growers to Hay, Graze or Chop Covers & Still Receive Prevent Planting Payments

Scramble to Meet Cover Crop Seed Demand

Time Running Out to Use Cover Crops on Prevent Plant Acres

USDA-RMA Announces Change to Haying and Grazing Date for Prevent Plant Acres in 2019

Risk Management Agency Announces Special Provisions for Cover Crop Terminations

Cover Crop Incentive Program Offered in Iowa

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