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The deadline to insure spring crops in the northeast for the 2025 crop year is March 15, 2025. Insurable spring crops include field and vegetable crops such as corn, soybeans, barley, oats, fresh market sweet corn, cabbage, processing beans, processing sweet corn, dry beans, green peas, fresh market beans, tomatoes, tobacco and potatoes. Coverage availability varies by county. 

The grain and oilseed sector had record harvests in 2024. With changing storage opportunities, market demands and trade challenges, what is on the horizon for 2025? Farm Credit East and Horizon Farm Credit will be hosting CoBank Lead Economists, Tanner Ehmke and Jacqui Fatka, on Monday, January 6, at 12 p.m. for a free webinar that will review variables affecting the upcoming cropping season.

Farm Credit East recently released a series of reports and webinars providing economic outlooks for the diverse sectors of Northeast agriculture, including dairy, grain and oilseeds, greenhouse and nursery, maple, apple and forest products.

The grain and oilseed sector had surprising 2023 results after a seemingly poor growing season. What will this mean for producer margins in 2024? Join Farm Credit East and Dr. Robert Maltsbarger of the Food and Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri, on Tuesday, April 9, at 12 p.m. for a free webinar that will review variables affecting the upcoming cropping season.