{"id":3354,"date":"2019-07-03T11:20:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2019-07-03T11:20:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T15:20:38","slug":"corn-as-a-cover-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/2019\/07\/03\/corn-as-a-cover-crop\/","title":{"rendered":"Corn as a Cover Crop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RMA recently made a one-time change that allows for more\nflexibility on insured acreage with a prevented planting claim, including use\nof corn as a cover crop on prevented planting acres, with use for silage\nallowed after September 1, if cover crop guidelines from local agricultural\nexperts are followed.&nbsp; This is in response to delayed and prevented planting resulting from above average\nrainfall and wetness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Short summary:&nbsp; The USDA Risk\nManagement Agency has made a one-time change to the 2019 crop year prevented\nplanting rules that effectively allows silage corn, if planted as a cover crop\nfollowing local agricultural expert guidelines, to be acceptable as a\npost-prevented planting cover crop. Under this one-time rule change, producers\nare allowed to produce this crop while retaining their prevented planting\npayment. This change couples with previously announced one-time changes to the\nprevented planting rules &#8211; including expanded acceptable uses for\npost-prevented planting cover crops and a change in the cover crop haying and\ngrazing start date rule &#8211; serve to help those struggling to meet their forage\nneeds due to the weather.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Visit the <strong>UVM Agricultural Risk Management and Crop Insurance\nEducation website<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/go.uvm.edu\/ag-risk\">http:\/\/go.uvm.edu\/ag-risk<\/a>\nwhere you will find <ul><li>a Fact Sheet from Cornell University Targeted States program\ndirector Dr. Jenny Ifft and co-director Jerzy Jaromczyk in the \u201cNews and\nEvents\u201dsection and <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>in the \u201cOther Resources\u201d section you will find links to RMA\ninformation on Prevented Planting flood provisions, Change to Haying and\nGrazing Date for Prevented Planting Acres Planted to a Cover Crop, and FAQ about\nPrevented Planting Due to Flooding.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Contact your crop insurance agent.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RMA recently made a one-time change that allows for more flexibility on insured acreage with a prevented planting claim, including use of corn as a cover crop on prevented planting acres, with use for silage allowed after September 1, if cover crop guidelines from local agricultural experts are followed.&nbsp; This is in response to delayed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/2019\/07\/03\/corn-as-a-cover-crop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Corn as a Cover Crop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":909,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"outcropn","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/author\/outcropn\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67qLh-S6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}