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Show Crop Insurance v Dates for Wheat & Barley Winter wheat and barley farmers In 12 states will have an additional month to sign up for a federal crop insurance, according to Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block. Department of Agriculture's Agricul-ture's Federal Crop Insurance Insur-ance Corp. has extended its closing dates for insurance on these crops from Aug. 31 to Sept. 30 in Colorado, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, Nebraska, NewHamp- "Extendlng the closing dates gives farmers valuable extra time In considering the importance of the expanded crop insurance program," Block said. In addition, Block said expanded ex-panded farmer participation in the crop insurance program pro-gram has also acted to reduce risk. "Insured crop acreage has doubled from 1980 to 1981," said Blcok, "and is expected to double again for 1982. shire, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Okla-homa, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming. The closing date in all other states already was set for Sept. 30 or later, he said. "The rapid changes experienced ex-perienced by FCIC as a result of its expanded crop insurance efforts demand that farmers be given extra time to learn about and consider con-sider the benefits of federal crop insurance," said Block. "Crop Insurance is especially es-pecially important to farm -ers now in light of the term -ination of the disaster payments pay-ments program." .Block said weather condi-. condi-. .:, tions around the country in-v in-v dlcate little actuarial risk in extending the closing dates on these crops. |