Hurricane Crop Insurance Reminder and EPA's Insecticide Strategy
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**Hurricane Insurance Protection-Wind Index and the Tropical Storm Option are crop insurance tools used to help deliver prompt assistance to producers in hurricane-prone areas.
HIP-WI and the TSO options generally pay within weeks following a hurricane or tropical storm.
Producers can attend a May 14 webinar to learn more about these tools and how they work following a qualifying storm.
For more or to sign up, go to www.rma.usda.gov .
**The Environmental Protection Agency released its final Insecticide Strategy that identifies practical protections for federally endangered and threatened species from the use of insecticides.
At the same time, it also provides flexibility for pesticide users and growers.
The Strategy identifies mitigations aimed at protecting more than 900 species listed by the Fish and Wildlife Service that the EPA considers when it registers a new insecticide or reevaluates an existing one.
**Lawmakers are sending signals that a new farm bill isn’t certain this year.
Reports say Republican lawmakers are considering adding Biden-era conservation programs to their party-line megabill that may have otherwise been separate.
Politico says this may mean Republicans are doubting their chances of getting a new, bipartisan farm bill this year.
GOP lawmakers have rejected Democrats push to add conservation money to the farm bill but now seem more open to it.
