04/04/07 Crop Insurance deadline for nurseries

Washington Ag April 4, 2007 USDA's Risk Management Agency reminds Pacific Northwest nursery growers that Tuesday, May 1st is the final date to renew current policies on 2008 Nursery Multi-Peril Crop Insurance in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Jo Lynne Seufer with RMA's regional office says May 1st is also the final date to obtain the Pilot Nursery Grower's Price Endorsement in Washington and Oregon. Seufer: "One thing that the Pacific Northwest nursery growers have helped us do within the Risk Management Agency is to enhance and improve our policy. And with those improvements we have really expanded our coverage, particularly in 2005 we had about 384 million dollars in coverage liability and in 2006 we had about 455. So the expansion there in insurance dollar coverage expanded quite a lot. We don't have the numbers yet for 2007 but I believe they would be similar in the expansion." MPCI Nursery insurance provides protection for wholesale nurseries producing marketing nursery plants grown in standard containers or in the field. I'm Bob Hoff.