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Iowa farmers may now take advantage of the Crop Insurance Discount Program offered by the Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. The sign-up period opened on Friday and will run through Friday, January 26, 2024. 

The program provides farmers and landowners who plant fall cover crops the opportunity to apply for a five dollar per acre discount on their spring crop insurance premiums. 

This is the seventh year of the program, which has enrolled nearly 2,000 farmers and aided in the seeding of more than one million acres of cover crops. To qualify, cover crop acres may not be enrolled in other cost share programs. To sign up for the Crop Insurance Discount Program, click here