USDA's Risk Management Agency is offering a new Fire Insurance Protection-Smoke Index (FIP-SI) endorsement for California grape growers for the 2025 crop year, in response to increasing risk of ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Growing grapes is a true labor of love and a serious investment. Though wine grapes have been eligible for crop insurance since 2011, for the first time the Cold Climate Conference, ...

In a major development for the wine industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency this summer plans to try out new crop insurance coverage in California to protect growers ...

County Executive PJ Wendel discusses challenges local grape farmers have due to the late April frost. PORTLAND – Possibly 75% of the concord grape harvest in Chautauqua County may have been damaged by ...