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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby reminds producers about the March 15th
deadline for spring-planted crop insurance enrollment, which determines
eligibility for the SURE program...he also has new numbers on the
expected payout for Kansas producers enrolled in the ACRE program. |
March 2, 2010 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby talks about proposed budget cuts in the
federal crop insurance program, and how they would likely affect
insurance coverage for Kansas crop producers...he also announces that
K-State will soon host a webinar for producers on the Supplemental
Revenue Assistance Program (SURE). |
February 2, 2010 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby looks at two items of interest to crop
producers: the ongoing problems with crop insurance not adequately
covering grain quality losses, and the latest projections on the returns
to Kansas crop producers from the A-C-R-E program, covering 2009
production. |
December 21, 2009 |
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K-State agricultural
economist Art Barnaby discusses the wheat insurance deadline. |
September 28, 2009 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby reviews his latest analysis of A-C-R-E and
whether it will pay crop producers to enroll this year's crops in that
program. He also spotlights an informational Webinar on A-C-R-E coming
up in early August. |
July 16, 2009 |
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K-State risk managment
specialist Art Barnaby has more on ACRE...the Average Crop
Revenue Election option as it might pertain to producers with failed
wheat. He also has information on an upcoming ACRE Webinar for
producers. |
June 16, 2009 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby has new information on the USDA's
Supplemental Revenue (SURE) and Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE)
programs, and the relevance to Kansas crop producers. |
May 1, 2009 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby talks about still more new developments
with "SURE"...the USDA's Supplemental Revenue program, which is giving
crop producers another chance to sign up for assistance on 2008 crop
revenue losses. |
March 27, 2009 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby reminds producers that March 15th is the
deadline for taking out insurance on 2009 spring-planted crops....and
he'll talk about some new developments with the Supplemental Revenue
program (SURE) of interest to Kansas producers. |
March 10, 2009 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby has the latest on USDA's new crop program
options: the Supplemental Revenue (SURE) program, and how to make it
work in the advent of crop losses; and the Average Crop Revenue Election
(ACRE) program, on which he advises producers to wait awhile before
enrolling. |
February 19, 2009 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby has more information on the new SURE
(disaster aid) program and how soybean producers in one part of Kansas
may actually qualify for that assistance as the weather has prevented
harvest. He also reminds producers of an important SURE-related
deadline. |
November 18, 2008 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby has more news about the USDA's
Supplemental Revenue program (SURE) as it might benefit Kansas crop
producers. |
October 30, 2008 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby talks about several crop insurance topics,
including reminders about the insurance factor when replanting winter
wheat. |
October 17, 2008 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby has some final observations on insuring
the 2008 winter wheat crop, with the deadline for enrolling coming up
next Tuesday. He also has thoughts on staying eligible for the new SURE
program for 2009 farm production. |
September 24, 2008 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby advises crop producers about the new
standing disaster assistance program, SURE, as far as claiming that
assistance for 2008 crop losses...a deadline coming up soon, despite the
fact that many finer details of this program are yet to be finalized. |
September 2, 2008 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby reviews his latest analysis of the new
Supplemental Revenue program, or SURE, which serves as the disaster
assistance component of the new farm bill...and how it can figure into
risk management for this next winter wheat crop. |
August 14, 2008 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby offers his first thoughts on the new
commodity program option in the soon-to-be enacted farm bill, called the
Average Crop Revenue Election program, and where it might fit into wheat
production risk management in Kansas. |
May 22, 2008 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby comments on a new study looking at the
likely impact on corn prices if the federal ethanol production mandate
and ethanol tax credits were eliminated. |
May 2, 2008 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby looks at crop insurance choices for
spring-planted crops. With the deadline for enrolling rapidly
approaching. Art discusses whether a producer should think about cutting
back on coverage in light of higher premiums. |
March 13, 2008 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby has an update on pivotal changes in crop
insurance coverage. |
February 4, 2008 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby talks about the new insurance tool
available to crop and livestock producers to manage commodity risk,
based on adjusted gross revenue..."AGR-lite." |
January 28, 2008 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby discusses insured wheat producers who are
applying for 2007 crop disaster assistance. Also, in the farm bill
debate, Art talks about the notion in some congressional circles that
wheat production regions like Kansas aren't carrying their weight, when
it comes to the fiscal soundness of the crop insurance program. |
November 9, 2007 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby has information on the series of ag
insurance workshops taking place next week in Kansas, Nebraska and
Colorado. |
October 31, 2007 |
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Risk management specialist
Art Barnaby shares his analysis of the new Average Crop Revenue (ACR)
option in the Senate version of the 2007 Farm Bill...which may not serve
wheat producers in the Great Plains all that well. |
October 26, 2007 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby has last-minute comments for wheat
producers on insurance coverage for the 2008 crop, focusing on a premium
rate issue that may affect farmers whose actual production history
yields have been dropping in recent years. |
September 28, 2007 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby looks at the options wheat producers have,
in taking out crop insurance on their 2008 production, with the
enrollment deadline just over two weeks away. |
September 12, 2007 |
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K-State agricultural
economist Art Barnaby offers his in-depth analysis of the two
leading 2007 Farm Bill proposals now up for consideration in the Senate,
and the "safety net" protection they offer to crop producers. |
September 10, 2007 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby reviews the 2007 Farm Bill proposal by the
U.S. House and its implications for the crop insurance program. He also
looks at a proposal in the Senate that would link a revenue-based farm
program payment system to crop insurance coverage. |
August 2, 2007 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby discusses several wheat crop loss matters,
including producer eligibility for crop quality loss compensation, as
part of their insurance coverage and as part of the new
disaster assistance package now being finalized. |
July 13, 2007 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby talks about the options available to wheat
growers who insured their crops, should freeze damage turn out to be
formidable in their stands. |
April 13, 2007 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby has some final thoughts on insurance
options for 2007 row crops. March 15th is the final day to take out, or
change, crop insurance policies covering this year's production. |
March 15, 2007 |
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K-State crop risk management
specialist Art Barnaby looks at how the surging grain markets are
influencing row crop insurance coverage for 2007, and how this impacts a
grower's risk management strategy. |
January 25, 2007 |
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K-State risk management
specialist Art Barnaby talks about the new agricultural insurance
program that the USDA is making available to Kansas producers for the
first time...a revenue protection program called Adjusted Gross Revenue
"Lite" or AGR-Lite. |
November 17, 2006 |
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