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NATIONAL CROP
INSURANCE SERVICES
7201 West 129th Street, Suite 200
Overland Park, Kansas 66213
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 3, 2003
The data used in this article was provided by the USDA’s Risk Management Agency.
For more information contact Jan Eliassen at 410-778-0120 or Laurie Langstraat at 913-686-2767
CALIFORNIA ONLY
Fall crop insurance deadline nears
California farmers who grow fall planted crops face a September 30 or October 30 deadline (depending on where they farm) to sign up for federally subsidized crop insurance, or to make any changes to existing policies.
Winter wheat growers in Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, and Siskiyou counties share the September 30 deadline with wild rice growers in Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, and Sutter counties.
For the rest of California, producers of winter wheat, oats, barley, forage, and alfalfa seed have until October 30.
California farmers were paid nearly $77 million in crop insurance indemnities for last year’s crop losses. Nationwide, crop insurance paid out more than $4 billion for losses suffered in 2002. For the first time, crop insurance surpassed federal disaster programs to become the largest part of the nation’s safety net for farmers.
Not all crops, or all types of policies are available in every county. To learn more and to sign up for crop insurance, or to make any changes to existing policies, producers must contact a private crop insurance agent before the September 30 deadline.
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