First APH yield exclusion policies go to 2015 spring crops

Farmers will be able to buy crop insurance polices for crops planted in spring 2015 that allow them to get higher yield coverage by excluding catastrophic losses when they calculate average production, the government said. “This implementation is sooner than we anticipated,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, because other parts of the 2014 farm law were completed… » Read More

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