The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expanding crop insurance options for some specialty and organic growers beginning with the 2025 crop year. USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is allowing enterprise units (EUs) by organic farming practice, adding enterprise unit eligibility for several crops, and making additional policy updates.
The following changes impacting citrus will be made beginning with the 2025 crop year:
- Expand EUs to citrus in Arizona, California and Texas.
- Allow non-contiguous parcels of land that qualify for optional units to also qualify for EUs.
- Allow EUs by organic farming practice for citrus in Arizona, California and Texas.
These revisions come through the Expanding Options for Specialty and Organic Growers Final Rule published in June by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. This final rule will update the Common Crop Insurance Policy Basic Provisions, Area Risk Protection Insurance Basic Provisions, and includes changes to individual Crop Provisions.
This announcement further advances USDA’s recently announced Specialty Crops Competitiveness Initiative, a department-wide effort to increase the competitiveness of specialty crop products in foreign markets, enhance domestic marketing, and improve production and processing practices.
Crop insurance is sold and delivered solely through private crop insurance agents. A list of agents is available at all USDA Service Centers and online at the RMA Agent Locator. Learn more at rma.usda.gov or by contacting your RMA Regional Office.
USDA RMA continues to explore ways to improve risk management tools for specialty crop producers and will be announcing additional program enhancements later this summer.
See a recent article by University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences economist Ariel Singerman about an insurance policy that has paid off for citrus growers.
Source: USDA RMA
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