Articles tagged under: prevent plant

New COVID Relief Gets Attention in Hoeven Roundtable

Published January 15, 2021

Roundtable participants asked the Farm Service Agency about the latest round of COVID relief. Producers of 2020 price trigger crops like soybeans and corn, along with flat rate crops like canola, are eligible to receive a payment of $20 per…

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Higher Prevent Plant Acreage in 2019 Brings Changes for 2021

Published October 21, 2020

The USDA says there are 10.2 million prevent plant acres across the country this year as of October 1, with North Dakota contributing about one-third of those acres. The prevent plant situation is much better than last year, but USDA…

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Northern Plains Farmers to Benefit from PP Coverage Updates

Published August 22, 2020

There will be some updates to prevent plant coverage for farmers starting next year. According to AgCountry Farm Credit Services Vice President of Insurance and Commodity Marketing Education Rob Fronning, here’s one of the bigger changes. "In reference to when…

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Ag Seeks a Permanent Fix for Cover Crops and PP Acres

Published August 20, 2020

Farmers, ranchers and agriculture groups in the Northern Plains are welcoming the September 1 date to graze and hay cover crops planted on prevent plant ground. In 2019, prevent plant acres were 3.9 million in South Dakota and 850,000 acres…

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Prevent Plant Acre Increase Prompts Haying/Grazing Adjustment

Published August 18, 2020

The USDA's Risk Management Agency is allowing earlier haying and grazing of cover crops on prevent plant acres for portions of the Dakotas. A backlog in livestock due to the COVID-19 pandemic and large amounts of prevent plant acres in…

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A Year of Saturated Soils

Published August 18, 2020

Fields in the Valley City, North Dakota area are saturated and farmer Monte Peterson says it’s been a struggle all year. "We've had saturated soils ever since planting and last fall, for that matter. It was a struggle to get…

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Select ND and SD Counties Can Hay/Graze Cover Crops Early

Published August 17, 2020

USDA's Risk Management Agency is opening up haying and grazing of cover crops on prevent plant acres to September 1 for 42 counties in the Dakotas. This response follows letters sent from North Dakota farm groups, noting the backlog in…

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Still Working Through Prevent Plant Claims

Published August 13, 2020

Prevent plant was the story for growers in the Red River Valley this year. Countryside Insurance Agency crop insurance agent Jennifer Otteson is still working through prevent plant claims, though she expected more claims filed. "Farmers pushed at the beginning…

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High Prevent Plant Acres May Not Make a Big Dent

Published August 13, 2020

The prevent plant numbers aren’t getting as much attention on a national scale as they did last year. University of Illinois Agricultural Economics Professor Scott Irwin says even though it’s not 19 million acres, a near nine million acres of…

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All Eyes on ND Prevent Plant

Published June 11, 2020

Total Farm Marketing Senior Market Advisor Naomi Blohm says the one thing the grain markets aren’t picking up on yet is North Dakota’s prevent plant. "The crop was late to get planted, because harvest was late. The most recent crop…

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