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Crop insurance tax traps By: DANIEL LOOKER 11/16/2012 @ 2:46pm

Federal tax laws allow farmers using cash accounting to defer income into another year fairly easily by delaying grain sales.This year, a big chunk of your income may be ...

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Pressure on crop insurance By: DANIEL LOOKER 02/14/2013 @ 2:08pm

At $9 billion a year or more, federal subsidies for crop insurance are now the biggest single USDA program for farmers ...

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Crop insurance industry launches new 'activism website' By: John Walter 12/04/2012 @ 3:37pm

The crop insurance industry continues to press its case to the public and policymakers with new information products.In ...

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Crop insurance jitters By: DANIEL LOOKER 11/16/2012 @ 2:41pm

After drought, crop insurance indemnity payments could be one-sixth of a record $122 billion in 2012 U.S. net farm income. But this success makes it a political target – just one concern farmers have about ...

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RMA shakes up crop insurance By: Steve Griffin 10/30/2012 @ 10:37am

A recent announcement by the Risk Management Agency could have some major implications to the crop insurance industry.RMA released Manager’s Bulletin (MGR-12-014) that will likely change the way crop ...

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Harvest prices & indemnity payments By: STEVE JOHNSON 10/17/2012 @ 7:58am

The USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) will release the final fall harvest prices for revenue protection crop insurance policies on November 1. As of October 15, those harvest prices are near $7.50 per bushel ...

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Flexible cash rent + indemnity payments = ? By: Jeff Caldwell 08/21/2012 @ 2:18pm

Flexible cash leases have grown in popularity immensely over the last few years. But, what happens in a flexible lease situation when drought slams your crop to the point where indemnity payments are about the ...

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Costly crop insurance? By: DANIEL LOOKER 08/01/2012 @ 2:50pm

Crop insurance has solid support from the leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees. They opposed Obama administration budget cuts for 2013 that would shave crop insurance premium subsidies for ...

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