NDSGA Stand Up for PP Buy-Up Option

The North Dakota Soybean Growers Association successfully defended a resolution in the American Soybean Association delegate session to reinstate the prevented planting buy-up option for crop insurance. The Risk Management Agency eliminated the policy for this year, but ASA will now seek its return in 2027. Mayville, North Dakota farmer Brent Kohls describes that victory. “We thought going into the ASA (delegate session), Iowa and a few other states might have some opposition to it,” said Brent Kohls, a grower from Mayville, North Dakota. “Through some backside conversations with other states, we were able to keep them in our court.” Kohls will be in Washington, D.C. during the week of March 9 to lobby Congress regarding the updated farm bill.