Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig Announced Crop Insurance Program
October 2, 2023 6:58AM CDT
Early morning sunrise over a field of corn or maize in the Charente region of France. Light catching the leaves and colour bouncing off the clouds.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced this week that the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship will again offer its crop insurance discount program for acres that are planted with cover crops. Farmers and landowners who plant fall cover crops will have the opportunity to apply for a $5 per acre discount on their spring crop insurance premiums.
Farmers and landowners may start enrolling in the crop insurance discount program on December 1. To qualify for the program, the cover crop acres cannot be enrolled in other state or United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) cost share programs.