USDA Announces Prevented Planting Changes Beginning Next Year

WASHINGTON, DC – The Risk Management Agency (RMA) has announced improvements to prevented planting coverage and to the beginning and veteran farmer and rancher program. These improvements, among others, were made to the Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic Provisions and will take effect with the 2021 growing season. Improvements to prevented planting coverage include an expansion of the nationwide “1 in 4” requirement, requiring producers to plant, insure and harvest acreage in at least one of the four most recent crop years. Another change includes making modifications to ensure that prevented planting payments adequately reflect the crops the producer intended to plant. An improvement to the beginning and veteran farmer and rancher program will allow participants with farming experience to use the Actual Production History (APH) of the previous producer, with permission, on the newly acquired land. More information can be found at www.farmers.gov.
(SOURCE: All Ag News)