United States: Risk Management Agency offers insurance coverage for certain specialty types of barley

Effective for the 2010 Crop Year, United States’ Risk Management Agency (RMA) is offering insurance coverage based on contract prices for all practices of certain specialty types of barley, AG Weekly reported on March, 2.

Specialty barley includes malting, waxy hulled, waxy hulless, and hulless types, available in all MPCI barley counties in Idaho, Oregon and Washington except the seven counties with a fall sales closing date for winter damage protection on winter barley.

Those seven counties: Cassia, Nez Perce and Payette of Idaho; and Wasco and Umatilla of Oregon; and Klickitat and Yakima of Washington, will have this new coverage for specialty barley types for the 2011 crop year.

RMA encourages barley growers to contact their crop insurance agent well ahead of the March 15, 2010, spring sales closing date to learn how these coverage enhancements might affect their current year's risk management decisions.

03 March, 2010