USDA’s Risk Management Agency will allow farmers more flexibility to use this year’s cover crops for forage. Director Martin Barbre says because of spring weather, flexibility for using cover crops on prevented planted acreage for haying, grazing, and cutting for silage, haylage, and baleage has become necessary. Barbre says there will likely be an unprecedented amount of prevented planting claims under Federal crop insurance, and the need for animal feed in many parts of the country is high. Barbre says for the 2019 crop year, cutting for silage, haylage, and baleage will be treated the same as grazing and the date for accessing these crops has been moved from November 1st to September 1st without a reduction in prevented plant payments.
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