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Feb 23, 2018
2 min

Weekly Roundup Feb. 23rd

By Sarah Fielder Crop Insurance Deadline is Approaching This is a reminder for Delmarva producers that the spring planted crops sales closing date for crop insurance is on March 15. Coverage for corn, cucumbers, forage seeding, fresh market sweet corn, fresh market tomatoes, grain sorghum, processing beans, processing sweet corn, processing tomatoes, soybeans, spring oats, and tobacco is available in select counties in Maryland. Producers should contact their crop insurance

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Dec 16, 2017
2 min

Weekly Roundup Dec. 14th

By Sarah Fielder RMA Ends 10 Percent Insurance Option for Preventive Planting USDA’s Risk Management Agency announced that the +10 percent option for preventive planting will be eliminated. This crop insurance option provided coverage on input costs if weather prevented planting. Moving forward only the +5 percent option will be available. To read the announcement from RMA, click here http://bit.ly/2o11KOD. Monsanto Offers Cash Back When You Buy New Dicamba Products Mon

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Nov 10, 2017
3 min

Weekly Roundup Nov. 10th

By Sarah Fielder Save the Date for the Ag Outlook and Policy Conference The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics annual Ag Outlook and Policy will be held on Dec. 12 at the Crowne Plaza in Annapolis. The conference will feature Kevin McNew, President, GeoGrain and Adjunct Professor in AREC, giving a 2018 commodity market outlook and Howard Leathers and Dale Johnson discussing the current dairy economy. Register at https://go.umd.edu/AREC17. 82 Farm Groups Urge

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Arkansas Producers File Class Action Lawsuit Related to Dicamba Drift Damage

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Aug 30, 2017
3 min

Arkansas Producers File Class Action Lawsuit Related to Dicamba Drift Damage

This is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. 2016 and 2017 have seen large numbers of complaints filed because of drift damage in the Midwest and South due to dicamba application on new Monsanto varieties of cotton and soybeans that allow producers to apply the dicamba over-the-top. I’ve written earlier about a dicamba drift class action lawsuit filed in Missouri, but a recently class action in the Eastern Federal District of Missouri

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Mar 3, 2017
2 min

Weekly Roundup March 3rd

By Sarah Fielder Help Us Understand Nontraditional Irrigation Water Uses Are you currently using nontraditional irrigation water uses? If the answer is yes, please take a moment to complete a needs assessment for CONSERVE: A Center of Excellence at the Nexus of Sustainable Water Reuse, Food, and Health, a multi-partner project. The needs assessment will help to steer the development of extension outreach by the University of Maryland and the University of Arizona extension s

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Sep 16, 2016
2 min

Weekly News Roundup: September 16th Edition

By Mayhah Suri What Kind of Ag Law Outreach Would You Like to See? Now available online is a program evaluation for the Ag Law Education Initiative (ALEI). The evaluation will help ALEI determine what topics to prioritize in the coming years. Let us know what you want to know! You can take the brief, anonymous survey here: http://go.umd.edu/ALEIEval Updated SCO Fact Sheet Now Available Paul Goeringer and Howard Leathers recently released an update to the Supplemental Coverag

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