Aug. 4--BEARDSTOWN -- For Beardstown farmer Jack Hardwick, the long-term flooding of many of his fields near Beardstown, Chandlerville and Meredosia has made this year's planting season a hard one.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United States, farmers have access to federally subsidized crop insurance — a backstop that affords them some peace of mind ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – Thousands of farmers are filing insurance claims this year after drought and triple-digit temperatures burned up crops across the nation’s Corn Belt, and some experts are ...

Mar. 14—GRAND FORKS — A Buxton man was sentenced to one year of supervised probation for concealing a material fact in a matter within the jurisdiction of the U.S. government, the last of his four ...

Federal corn crop insurers could see a 22 percent spike in claims filed by 2030 and a nearly 29 percent jump by midcentury, thanks to the impacts of climate change, a new study has found. Both U.S.

With the March 16 sign-up deadline approaching for 2026 spring-seeded crops, National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) has reported record participation in US crop and livestock insurance for the 2025 ...

It is a heavy year for prevent plant crop insurance claims as some farmers, especially in southern Illinois, struggled to find a planting window as the calendar neared July. “Our three-year average ...

Claim payments to American farmers hit by the 2012 drought topped $3.5 billion this week, according to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. That includes more than $245 million in compensation to ...

The probe, conducted in the second week of February, was prompted by an unusual surge in insurance applications for banana crops ...

Chandigarh: More than Rs 116 crore in crop insurance compensation under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) remains pending in Haryana for the last three financial years, the state govt ...