Emergency Procedures Announced to Streamline Crop Insurance Claims
USDA’s Risk Management Agency is authorizing emergency procedures as extreme drought conditions persist across the country. The agency is working with crop insurance companies to simplify the adjustment of losses and issue indemnity payments. “We recognize the distress experienced by farmers and ranchers because of drought,” said Richard Flournoy, acting administrator, RMA. “These emergency […]
Weekly Dry Bean Market Review
USDA Market News reports most dry bean prices the Minn-Dak region are unchanged from the previous week. Grower prices for black beans in North Dakota and Minnesota at $36-to-$40 per hundredweight (cwt). Pinto bean prices are at $35-to-$38 per cwt. Navy beans are at $33-to-$36 per cwt. Dark red and light red kidney bean prices […]
RMA Strengthens Dry Bean Insurance Policy
USDA is making improvements to crop insurance to better enable agricultural producers to manage risk on their operations. Specifically, USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is adding new options for producers of dry beans. Beginning in 2022, the Dry Beans and Dry Peas regulation will: Allow enterprise and optional units by type for dry beans and […]
Crop Progress Report – July 12, 2021
According to USDA’s Crop Progress Report, dry edible bean condition in North Dakota rated 13% very poor, 30% poor, 41% fair, 14% good, and 2% excellent. Dry edible beans blooming was 18%, near 21% last year, and behind 28% average. Setting pods was 1%. Topsoil moisture supplies in North Dakota were rated 32% very […]
USDA Seeks Dry Beans
USDA is seeking dry beans for using in the National School Lunch Program and other Federal Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs. Including in the offer are packaged Great Northern and pinto beans, along with 2,000-pound totes of pinto beans. The specialist for this solicitation is Christopher Edwards. The contracting officer for this solicitation is Kelli […]
Weekly Dry Bean Market Review
USDA Market News reports most dry bean prices the Min-Dak region unchanged from the previous week. Grower prices for black beans in North Dakota and Minnesota at $36-to-$40 per hundredweight (cwt). Pinto bean prices are at $36-to-$38 per cwt. Navy beans are at $33 per cwt. Dark red and light red kidney bean prices are […]
Crop Progress Report – July 6, 2021
According to USDA’s Crop Progress Report, dry edible bean condition in North Dakota rated 12% very poor, 31% poor, 40% fair, 15% good, and 2% excellent. Blooming was 9%, equal to last year, and near 11% average. Topsoil moisture supplies in North Dakota rated 35% very short, 41% short, 23% adequate, and 1% surplus. Subsoil […]
Pinto Beans Purchased
USDA has purchased dry beans under Section 32 for distribution to child nutrition and other domestic food assistance programs for Fiscal Year 2021. The purchase includes 2321,360 CS of pinto beans totaling more than $3.4 million. Get the full details.
USDBC Submits Unified Export Strategy
The U.S. Dry Bean Council (USDBC) submitted the annual Unified Export Strategy (UES) for the 2022 program year to USDA/FAS. The UES is the comprehensive annual global strategy for the U.S. dry bean industry that details the market conditions, constraints, opportunities, activities, and benchmarks in current and emerging export markets. While strategies change from year […]
Weekly Dry Bean Market Review
Compared to last week, dry bean product movement is slow to inactive. Prices are mostly steady to firm on moderate demand. Drought and higher than normal temperatures persist throughout many of the growing regions. USDA Market News puts the grower price for black beans in North Dakota and Minnesota at $38-to-$40 per hundredweight (cwt). Pinto […]
