May 2022
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June 14- Flag Day
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August 2-7 – Freeborn County Fair

Farm Insurance Highlights
Do you raise animals for others? Americana Insurance can now offer you a monoline Care, Custody, and Control liability policy now through The Hartford Livestock company. Also, can be known as Contract Growers coverage.

Loss Prevention
Avian Flu can be devastating to poultry flocks. Find out what you can do to help stop the spread.

Washington
A White House proposal aims to encourage US farmers to increase soybean and wheat production to offset global shortages by offering higher marketing loan rates for double cropping wheat and soybeans. The $500 million program is targeting other commodity shortages as well, such as rice and other pulse crops, and heads to Congress for consideration.

Did You Know?

Crop Insurance
Crop Insurance is Firm Foundation for Farm Economy
US farmers are unlikely to revisit a 1980s-style crisis again due to a significant increase in the acreage covered by the US crop insurance system, according to Joe Outlaw, co-director, Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M.