Changes to federal crop insurance rules pointed for 1998
The article notes 1998 revisions to the Federal Crop Insurance Program aiming to improve risk protection. It details prevented planting rules, drought as a named peril, and cotton coverage levels with 45 percent base and up to 55 percent buy-up, still below coarse grains. Also discusses NCS moratorium, t yields using 20 year county data, and EPA disapproval risk for Furadan 4F 24c labels with a recall plan and dealer notice.
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Shawn Wade
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
FCIC
Federal Register
PCG
Plains Cotton Growers
Washington
National Cotton Council
National Ag Statistics Service
Farm Service Agency
NCS
Environmental Protection Agency
Texas
Oklahoma
Texas Department of Agriculture
Texas Agriculture
Rick Perry
Lynn Goldman
EPA
TDA
Texas history notes and oddities in Footnote to History
Talk of Texas by Jack Maguire surveys Governor Fletcher S. Stockdale’s brief acting tenure in 1865 and how his forgotten service lingers in history. It also mentions a Wilson County settlement named Stockdale, a 1877 courtroom brawl, Lyndon Johnson’s first speech site, and a Hopkins study on shrinking human size and brains.
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Jack Maguire
Fletcher S. Stockdale
Texas
Stockdale
Pendleton Murrah
Austin
Murrah
Joe Shelby
Mexico
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Hamilton
Abraham Lincoln
Hamilton
New Orleans
Brownsville
Gover
Wilson County
Shackleford County
Fort Griffin
Carn
Lyndon Johnson
New Canaan Farms
U.S. 290
Henry
Hays County
John Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore
Rainfall Aids Texas Drought Outlook
Rainfall added more than 6.4 million acre feet of water to Texas reservoirs from rivers and streams. Despite the inflow, analysts say this amount remains below the estimated annual need by the year 2000.
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