Canola crop insurance deadline coming
Washington Ag Today August 18, 2009 August 31st is the sales closing date for Multi-Peril Crop Insurance in the Pacific Northwest for 2010 Fall Planted Canola and Rapeseed for counties with fall and spring types. Jo Lynne Seufer with the regional office of USDA’s Risk Management Agency says there is a good reason why canola growers may want to meet with their crop insurance agent ahead of that sales closing date. Seufer: “Because possibly next spring for our March 15th closing date we will have available what we call a revenue assurance plan for our canola and rapeseed producers. And those producers who have a current Multi-Peril Crop Insurance, an APH-actual production history policy, may want to consider canceling that policy and then obtaining the revenue assurance plan in the spring. And again that revenue assurance is gaining a lot of popularity because it not only protects the yield side of a risk but also the revenue side of the risk. The volatility in our markets.” August 31st is also the sales closing date for 2010 Fall Planted Onions in Walla Walla and Umatilla counties. After August the next crop insurance sales closing date is September 30th and that is for 2010 crop winter and spring wheat, barley with Winter Coverage endorsement, mint with the Winter Coverage Option, Dry Pea with Winter Coverage Option, Forage crop insurance and Alfalfa Seed Pilot crop insurance. I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on the Northwest Ag Information Network.
