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Sentinel Staff WASHINGTON Legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow would allow farmers to plant cover crops without facing crop insurance penalties when bad weather prevents them from planting for the season. Stabenow and South Dakota Sen. John Thune, both Democrats, introduced the Cover Crop Flexibility Act of 2021 in the Senate on April 29. The bill would lift insurance penalties for farmers planting cover crops. “Historic rainfall in 2019 caused many farmers to miss the planting season,” Stabenow said in a statement. “When extreme weather gets in the way of planting, farmers aren’t able to grow beneficial cover crops without facing a crop insurance penalty. This commonsense change permanently fixes that problem and is a win for the environment and for farmers.” ....
Jess McCarron WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), a longtime member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure that farmers can plant beneficial cover crops without facing crop insurance penalties when bad weather prevents them from planting their crops for the season. The Cover Crop Flexibility Act of 2021 was inspired by Senator Stabenow and Senator Gary Peters’s successful effort in 2019 to give flexibility to Michigan farmers after record-setting flooding and wet weather delayed planting. Currently, crop insurance penalizes farmers for planting cover crops that can be used for livestock grazing or animal feed when farmers can’t plant their crops for the season because of bad weather. The bill will permanently lift this restrictive rule and provide certainty if farmers face poor planting conditions ....
ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich. ....
Pierre, SD, USA / DRGNews Apr 29, 2021 | 1:56 PM South Dakota Senator John Thune– a longtime member of the Senate Agriculture Committee– and committee chairwoman Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow have reintroduced the Cover Crop Flexibility Act. The legislation would remove the prohibition on harvesting or grazing cover crops on prevented plant acres prior to November 1 and allow this flexibility outside of the primary nesting season. This legislation is an offshoot of Thune and Stabenow’s 2019 effort that led the US Department of Agriculture to make an administrative change that allowed for penalty-free haying and grazing, which significantly benefited states like South Dakota and Michigan. In 2020, Thune and Stabenow again requested that USDA move up the November 1 date to September 1, but the department only provided flexibility in certain counties in South Dakota and North Dakota. This bill would provide a permanent solution to this issue and create great ....
Richard Hamilton Smith/Getty Images CHANGES: The Michigan Soybean Committee and Michigan Soybean Association have new logos and are moving headquarters to St. Johns, Mich. The changes are designed to better serve Michigan soybean growers. Recognizing that the Michigan Soybean Promotion Committee does more than just promotion, the checkoff organization has changed its name to the Michigan Soybean Committee. While promotion and outreach remain a key focus area, there also is a major focus on market development and production research, says Janna Fritz, who took over as CEO in July 2019 for both the Michigan Soybean Committee and the Michigan Soybean Association. ....