1. Common Crop Insurance Regulations, Tobacco Crop Insurance Provisions 13055-13061 [E9-6726]

Mar 26, 2009      Federal Register

FCIC also changes the Guaranteed Tobacco Crop Insurance Provisions by changing the title to Tobacco Crop Insurance Provisions. The tobacco producer must elect each tobacco type being insured by the sales closing date. The tobacco producer cannot add a tobacco type to the acreage report if the tobacco producer did not elect to insure the tobacco type by the sales closing date. more...

2. HB 2757, 2009 Regular Session

Mar 20, 2009      West Virginia State Legislature

Financial statements furnished pursuant to section four of this article shall be examined by the independent certified public accountant. The audit of the insurer's financial statements shall be conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Management's report of internal control over financial reporting. more...

3. AB 157, 2009-2010 Regular Session

Mar 24, 2009      California State Legislature

Property taxation: transfer of base year value: disaster relief. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy. 97 AB 157 -- 2 -- Vote: majority. Relief 97 -- 5 -- AB 157 1 under this section shall be granted to an owner or owners of 2 substantially damaged or destroyed property obtaining title to 3 replacement property. more...

4. H 3562, 2009-2010 Regular Session

Mar 24, 2009      South Carolina State Legislature

A catastrophe model is a computer program that estimates losses from a potential upcoming disaster. Catastrophe models are computer programs that estimate losses from potential upcoming disasters. In computing total premiums, return premiums on risks and dividends paid or credited to policyholders are excluded. more...

5. SB 892, 2009 Regular Session

Mar 26, 2009      Hawaii State Legislature

If the fees are not paid, the 11 director may deny renewal, restoration, reactivation, or 12 reinstatement of the license. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, all 20 revenues, fees, and fines collected by the department shall be 21 deposited into the compliance resolution fund. Any law to the contrary notwithstanding, the 5 moneys in the fund shall be used to fund the operations of the 6 department. more...

6. S 3551, 2009 Regular Session

Mar 25, 2009      New York State Legislature

...insurer, fraternal benefit society, or health maintenance 15 organization. 16 (o) In this article, "solicit" or "solicitation" means attempting to 17 sell insurance or asking or urging a person to apply for a particular 18 kind of insurance from a particular [licensed] insurer, fraternal bene- 19 fit society, or health maintenance organization. 20 S 3. Paragraphs 6 and 7 of subsection (r) of section 2101 of the 21 insurance law, are renumbered paragraphs 9 and 10, and three new para- 22 graphs...more...

7. BRIEF Buy-in program will open door for more ag disaster funds

Mar 20, 2009      The Wichita Eagle

...federal stimulus package will use a buy-in program to extend an opportunity for agriculture producers to be eligible for additional disaster assistance. Producers will need to pay $100 buy-in fee per crop, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Deadline for application is May 18. Those who previously obtained crop insurance from the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation or the Non-insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program are not eligible. For more information go... more...

8. Where's the California Economic Recovery Plan?

Mar 22, 2009      Calitics

Often known as a "jobless recovery". Core weaknesses: Required endless supply of debt and cheap oil to sustain what little growth there was. Each recovery just sort of happened, partly by federal design and partly due to state laws, from Prop 13 to land use, favoring sprawl. Unfortunately California also has a huge corporate agriculture sector that is increasingly using unsustainable practices, especially for water. more...

9. Extension Office Launches Test Growing Of Biofuels Crops

Mar 24, 2009      Highlands Today

There's no doubt that it will grow here, Alleyne said. more...

10. County groups to help farmers

Mar 23, 2009      Republican and Herald

They also plan to develop a farm market map for Schuylkill County by 2010, Morgan said. "I'm sure it would help with advertising. The chamber will then distribute proceeds of sale. The farmer and the end results, profit or loss, will be made public at Farm City Dinner, the first Friday in November. more...

11. More food imports may spark safety worries

Mar 25, 2009      The Press-Enterprise

...figs, persimmons, raisins, artichokes, dried plums, olives, pomegranates and walnuts produced in the United States come from California, and the state's farmers grow hundreds of other crops for markets, food producers and livestock operations. But after three years of drought, water is being shifted from farms to cities. If the trend continues, the nation would have to rely more on food grown outside its boundaries, a possibility that poses serious economic and food safety... more...

12. Public Input Welcome For Disaster Plan

Mar 25, 2009      Hernando Today

Following the hurricanes of 2004, Hernando County qualified for just under $1 million. Following the hurricanes of 2004, Hernando County qualified for just under $1 million. more...

13. Breaking ground Spring planting season starts for local farmers

Mar 26, 2009      The Anniston Star

...farmer Doug Trantham said on average it costs $300 to plant and tend to an acre of corn, and in an average year when he can get 115 bushels per acre, he might make a $50 profit off each acre. Trantham also said he shouldn't lose any money with rainfall averages being higher, as long as there's more of it here and there. "We can make a pretty decent crop," he said. Farmers are currently burning their cover crops, plants like the fescue grass that protect the crop land... more...

14. Water worries weigh on farmers

Mar 25, 2009      The Press-Enterprise

Diego County has lost 4,000 acres of avocado trees to drought and another 3,000 acres to the fires of 2007. The California Avocado Commission expects this year's crop to be the smallest in 20 years. San Diego, Riverside, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties are the top producers of avocados in the state. In the Palo Verde Valley near Blythe, farmers have fallowed 25,947 acres of farmland since 2005. The MWD signed agreements with 90 of the valley's... more...

15. Crisis On Tap California's water reckoning

Mar 25, 2009      The Press-Enterprise

Territorial rifts have been a hallmark of the state's water history. Farmers blame environmentalists. more...