For farmers who grow anything but soybeans and corn in Illinois, buying crop insurance is nearly impossible. Even an insurance agent couldn’t figure out how to safeguard his vegetable and poultry farm ...

West Des Moines-based Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Co. of Iowa said Wednesday its purchase of California-based Global Ag Insurance Services will enhance its core crop insurance business and expand ...

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 ...

The federal crop insurance program is working reasonably well, officials say. But change is coming, particularly if the program is revamped in the next farm bill, some say. "Everything will be on the ...

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, ...

Today DSE and the University of Arkansas published a study in the Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualization and an open source tool that show the need for changes to federal crop ...

Year after year of drought and intense heat that have cooked crops in Texas also have fueled a clash between USDA and the crop insurance industry that has spilled over into discussions of a new farm ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Roughly one-third of U.S. government spending to insure the nation's crops since 2011 has gone to insurance companies that derive more than $1 billion in profit from the ...

Palomar Holdings, Inc. has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Advanced AgProtection (AAP), a specialized Crop Managing General Agent based in Texas. This acquisition follows a successful ...

VOLGA, S.D. - As parts of the region have experienced heavy rainfall and flooding throughout this spring and summer, many agricultural producers are now faced with making management decisions for the ...