Paul D. Mitchell, Agricultural and Applied Economics, UW-Madison The USDA-FSA just announced that they will begin sending letters to eligible farmers that report two types of information: 1) their current base acres and payment yields, …
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Economic Risk and Profitability of Soybean Seed Treatments at Reduced Seeding Rates
Adam P Gaspar, Shawn P Conley and John Gaska, Department of Agronomy and Paul Mitchell, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison Introduction Earlier soybean planting coupled with increasing seed costs and higher …
Economic Risk and Profitability of Soybean Seed Treatments at Reduced Seeding Rates
Adam P Gaspar, Shawn P Conley and John Gaska, Department of Agronomy and Paul Mitchell, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin Madison Introduction Earlier soybean planting coupled with increasing seed costs and …
Prevented Planting Options for Insured Wisconsin Farmers
Paul D. Mitchell, Agricultural and Applied Economics, UW-Madison Assumptions: You bought corn and soybean crop insurance with a yield history of 160 bu/ac for the corn and 40 bu/ac for the soybeans. With 75% Revenue …
Late and Prevented Planting Coverage and Replant Provisions
Paul D. Mitchell, Agricultural and Applied Economics, UW-Madison The cool wet weather this spring delayed planting for many Wisconsin farmers. As of May 28, USDA reports that only 64% of Wisconsin corn and 29% of …
Cover Crops for Forage, Crop Insurance Rules Change
by Paul D. Mitchell, Agricultural and Applied Economics, UW-Madison For the 2013 crop year, the USDA has changed crop insurance rules pertaining to the insurability of crops planted after cover crops. Wisconsin farmers may want to …
Drought 2012: Moldy Corn and Crop Insurance
Drought 2012: Moldy Corn and Crop Insurance Damon L. Smith, Plant Pathology (UW-Madison/Extension), Paul D. Mitchell (Agricultural and Applied Economics, UW-Madison/Extension) To download this article as a PDF file click here. Corn harvest is beginning …
Drought 2012: USDA Changes Crop Insurance Rules for Cover Crop Harvesting in Spring 2013
Drought 2012: USDA Changes Crop Insurance Rules for Cover Crop Harvesting in Spring 2013 Paul D. Mitchell, Agricultural and Applied Economics, UW-Madison/Extension A recent UW Extension bulletin explained USDA crop insurance rules applying to farmers …
Emergency forage and crop insurance rules
Paul D. Mitchell, Agricultural and Applied Economics, UW-Madison/Extension This year, many Wisconsin farmers are looking to plant a late summer/early fall crop to produce some extra forage or simply as a cover crop. This bulletin reminds farmers …
Drought and Crop Insurance: Patience Please!
Drought and Crop Insurance: Patience Please! Paul D. Mitchell (Agricultural and Applied Economics, UW Madison/Extension) The year began with plentiful moisture and high hopes as Wisconsin planted 4.35 million corn acres and 1.69 million soybean …