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Iowa Soybean Research Center

in collaboration with the Iowa Soybean Association

Naig Encourages Farmers to Enroll in USDA’s New Pandemic Cover Crop Program

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig issued the following statement in response to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Risk Management Agency’s (RMA) new Pandemic Cover Crop Program (PCCP). The PCCP, modeled off Iowa’s successful crop insurance discount program, offers a $5 per acre discount on spring crop insurance premiums for producers who planted cover crops in the fall of 2020.