{"id":7335,"date":"2015-03-19T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T14:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncis.staging.wpengine.com\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2015-03-19T10:58:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T14:58:06","slug":"usda-proposes-expansion-of-crop-insurance-to-cover-underserved-specialty-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/usda-proposes-expansion-of-crop-insurance-to-cover-underserved-specialty-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA Proposes Expansion of Crop Insurance  to Cover Underserved, Specialty Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently proposed to expand certain regulations to increase the availability of crop insurance to many farmers who currently can\u2019t purchase coverage for their crops \u2013 including many fruit and vegetable growers \u2013 the agency announced recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese improvements will help expand and improve crop insurance to underserved crops,\u201d noted Risk Management Agency Administrator Brandon Willis.\u00a0 The proposed rule will ease the burden on private submitters while making crop insurance policies for underserved and specialty crop commodities a priority.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the recommended changes addressed provisions of the 2014 Farm Bill that were meant to expand the farm safety net options for modern agricultural practices, a move of significant importance given the elimination of direct payments to farmers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are continuing our work to ensure that a wider variety of producers have access to sound risk management tools to keep themselves protected from disaster,\u201d noted Willis.\u00a0\u00a0 USDA\u2019s full announcement can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rma.usda.gov\/news\/2015\/02\/rma15-021.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently proposed to expand certain regulations to increase the availability of crop insurance to many farmers who currently can\u2019t purchase coverage for their [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safety-net","category-whats-cropping-up"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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