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There's Money in Your Mailbox: The OBBBA Farm Program Update (opens the original)
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If you farm — or you write crop insurance for folks who do — there's a postcard sitting in a mailbox right now that's worth real money, and a deadline attached that nobody's saying loudly enough. This week I break down the farm-program changes coming out of the One Big Beautiful Bill: what's automatic, what you have to act on, and the dates that'll bite you if you snooze. Ten minutes, plain English, no government-handbook fog. Here's what we cover: → The base-acre postcard and the August 31 dead
ECO, SCO & MCO Explained: What Changed for 2027 (and Why Your Old Coverage May Be Wrong) (opens the original)
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The 2027 crop year brings the biggest shake-up to shallow-loss coverage since these products were created. Alex Offerdahl, managing partner at Watts and Associates and the architect behind ECO, is back on The Crop Insurance Podcast to walk through what's changed and what it means for your operation. In this episode: Why SCO now covers up to 90% and how that reshapes the ECO band The 80% subsidy: why the government now pays $4 for every $1 you put in ECO participation nearly tripled last year — h
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