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The deadline to insure spring crops in the northeast for the 2024 crop year is March 15, 2024. Insurable spring crops include field and vegetable crops such as corn, soybeans, barley, oats, fresh market sweet corn, cabbage, processing beans, processing sweet corn, dry beans, green peas, fresh market beans, tomatoes, tobacco and potatoes.

Farm Credit East is currently accepting nominations for the Lipinski Rural Initiatives Award, which aims to recognize innovative and transformational efforts to revitalize Northeast rural communities. For 2024, Farm Credit East and its strategic partner CoBank have committed to award a combined $50,000 to one or more recipients. The nomination deadline has been extended to February 12, 2024. 

Join Farm Credit East, Cornell University’s Dr. Chris Wolf and Dr. Marin Bozic of the University of Minnesota for Farm Credit East’s annual dairy outlook webinar on Wednesday, January 24 at 1:00 pm. This webinar is free to attend for all interested dairy producers.

Farm Credit East’s bylaws provide for the nomination of candidates by petition by Thursday, January 25, 2024.