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More Changes to Cover Crop Guidelines

Many of you are seeding cover crops on your operation to improve soil health, increase forage options for livestock or both, without any involvement or reward from the government.
Many of you are seeding cover crops on your operation to improve soil health, increase forage options for livestock or both, without any involvement or reward from the government.
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Progress has Certainly Been Made in Overcoming Cover Crop Concerns with Crop Insurance, but There’s Still a Need for Rule Change Refinements

Over the last half dozen years, the No-Till Farmer editors have written extensively about cover crop concerns leading to disastrous results with crop insurance rules. With the many benefits of no-till and cover crops, we certainly don’t want to see growers losing crop insurance coverage because of significant differences in rule interpretation among government and crop insurance staffers.
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Be Prepared To Educate Agents, Adjusters On Cover Crop Practices

Recordkeeping and communication can help no-tillers follow the NRCS’ new cover-crop termination rules and keep their fields insured.

Cash crops seeded last fall and this spring will fall under the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new cover-crop termination guidelines, devised last year by a task force of the Risk Management Agency (RMA), Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and several other ag stakeholders.


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