USDA Risk Management Agency Clarifies Non-Irrigated Cotton Insurance Questions

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USDA Risk Management Agency Clarifies Non-Irrigated Cotton Insurance Questions

USDA Risk Management Agency Clarifies Non-Irrigated Cotton/Small Grain Insurability Questions

The USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) responded to concerned cotton producers and issued a bulletin yesterday that clarifies a number of issues related to small grain crops and the insurability of non-irrigated cotton.

As a typical conservation tillage practice, many producers plant small grain crops, such as wheat, as a cover crop for their cotton and complete termination of that crop before planting cotton is usually not an issue. However, extreme drought conditions can prevent herbicides from fully terminating the cover crop, possibly rendering a field uninsurable.

RMA's bulletin (PDF: MGR-11-007) recognizes that because of the drought, there could be small portions of a cover crop that could have produced a seed head, but if the producer did everything they could to terminate the cover crop before it reached that point and followed all other guidelines, subsequent crops such as non-irrigated cotton can be insured. This clarification applies also to volunteer wheat.

Posted: 6/15/2011 13:46pm

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