Aug. 4--BEARDSTOWN -- For Beardstown farmer Jack Hardwick, the long-term flooding of many of his fields near Beardstown, Chandlerville and Meredosia has made this year's planting season a hard one.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United States, farmers have access to federally subsidized crop insurance — a backstop that affords them some peace of mind ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – Thousands of farmers are filing insurance claims this year after drought and triple-digit temperatures burned up crops across the nation’s Corn Belt, and some experts are ...

A Kentucky farmer agreed to pay at least $9.9 million to the federal government over fraudulent crop insurance claims. Larry Walden pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit money ...

Federal corn crop insurers could see a 22 percent spike in claims filed by 2030 and a nearly 29 percent jump by midcentury, thanks to the impacts of climate change, a new study has found. Both U.S.

It is a heavy year for prevent plant crop insurance claims as some farmers, especially in southern Illinois, struggled to find a planting window as the calendar neared July. “Our three-year average ...

NILES, Mich. (WSBT) — A Niles farmer accused of getting federal crop insurance coverage and benefits for crops he did not farm will pay tens of thousands of dollars to the federal government. David ...

The probe, conducted in the second week of February, was prompted by an unusual surge in insurance applications for banana ...

Dec. 22--Federal crop insurance is supposed to be a safety net for farmers, but an ongoing Central Kentucky investigation suggests that a few are defrauding the system to harvest thousands and even ...

Details of the 2026 Crop Insurance Program were announced Friday afternoon from the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation ...

The crop insurance market is growing as digital underwriting helps reduce the loss ratios, government-backed subsidy programs expand and climate-driven agricultural losses increase in developed and ...