Applications for the Annual Forage Insurance Program are due by July 15th. With forecasts calling for a dry period that could stretch into late fall, both crop and livestock producers who are considering the benefits of annual forages may look to the program as a means of managing the precipitation risk that comes with planting. Plus, changes to the program to benefit winter wheat producers. 

Jay Parsons is a professor and farm and ranch management specialist in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. For more, read his article on this topic at farm.unl.edu.