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Future challenges for crop insurance
2015-03-24 22:09:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
The Obama Administration and some members of Congress are currently proposing some major changes in the federal crop insurance program. At the same time, other members of Congress and agricultural leaders are stressing the need to maintain a strong crop insurance program as the centerpiece of a risk protection program for U.S. crop producers. Focus on Ag read more
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Considerations for crop insurance coverage
2015-03-12 17:45:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
The dealine for 2015 crop insurance elections is just days away. As you finalize your choices, consider the following: what coverage is best for your farm, and look at all available options, particularly new ones from the 2014 Farm Bill. read more
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Few Changes to USDA Crop Estimates
2015-03-12 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - USDA made very few changes to its crop estimates in yesterday’s March World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) but the changes it did make were a bit unexpected, writes Steve Meyer & Len Steiner.
Eco-efficient Crop & Livestock Production for Nicaraguan Farmers
2015-03-05 22:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: For Roberto Pineda, a smallholder farmer in the Somotillo municipality of Nicaragua, his traditional practice after each harvest was to cut down and burn all crop residues on his land, a practice known as "slash-and-burn" agriculture. A widespread practice on these sub-humid hillsides of Central America, it was nonetheless causing many negative environmental implications, including poor soil quality, erosion, nutrient leaching, and the loss of ecosystem diversity. Slash-and-burn allows farmers...
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Yields of key cassava crop not keeping pace with Africa population growth: TRFN
2015-03-03 15:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Yields of cassava, a key crop feeding millions of people across Africa, are not keeping pace with population growth despite its tolerance for climate change, a leading scientist said. More than half the world's cassava, a high-energy root crop, is grown in sub-Saharan Africa, where it is often the cheapest source of calories for poor people, said Clair Hershey, programme leader at the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). "More than 200 million people rely on...
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