A University of Wisconsin researcher says USDA’s Risk Management Agency has been working with universities to change crop insurance early planting dates. Soybean and small grains specialist Shawn Conley says, “We’re really trying to update some of these archaic or old dates.”
Shawn Conley
Conley tells Brownfield the early planting dates need to change nationwide, saying for example that May 26th in North Carolina is ridiculous. “Even up here in Wisconsin where a lot of our counties are around that April 26th date, we’re trying to push it back to April 20th and so we’ve had a lot of input with RMA to try to make some changes.”
Conley says he also worked with the RMA on changing the double-crop map to cover more northern counties, reaching into Wisconsin.
