Aug 17, 2020
USDA Allows Some Farmers to Hay, Graze or Chop Cover Crops Early This Year WASHINGTON, August 17, 2020 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) today announced that this year farmers who planted cover crops on prevented plant acres in select counties in North and South Dakota will be permitted to…
Aug 10, 2020
The agency is entering its final week of acreage reporting. To date, we have close to 100,000 acres of prevent plant keyed, verified, and paid. Our team of adjusters from our partner AIP’s have been doing an outstanding job so far in getting claims worked and paid. Although our reach is far, and different regions…
May 21, 2020
“I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman’s cares.” – John F. Kennedy For those of you that attended the February 7th crop update meeting in Fargo and stayed awake…
Apr 16, 2020
It was not that long ago when we talked about markets and selling grains, now the focus has been turned to programs. The PPP administered through local banks and funded by SBA has some holes in it for farmers. The first one is that it is based off of payroll and a lot of farmers…
Mar 27, 2020
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities I hesitate to say that we’ve seen everything these last few years, but we must be getting close. Rising input costs, declining grain and livestock prices, trade wars, flooding, wet, wet, fall, still harvesting, and…
Mar 18, 2020
To Our Clients: We are in unprecedented and uncertain times. What remains constant is our commitment to the health and safety to our employees and customers. Given the rapidly changing environment due to the Coronavirus, we have decided to close our lobbies starting Thursday, March 19th. This temporary step is out of an abundance of…
Mar 3, 2020
The start of 2020 crop season is upon us and prices will be announced soon. We will be sending out a separate text alert with all the spring prices for 2020 as soon as they are finalized by RMA. We currently have roughly 28,000 of corn still standing in the field, down about 10,000 from…
Jan 3, 2020
Join us for an insurance update meeting followed by dinner and dancing on February 7th in West Fargo, ND! Details are listed below. We have a block of hotel rooms at the Double Tree in West Fargo for a rate of $99 – just mention the group name “Heritage Insurance/Valley Crop Insurance”. In order to…