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The USDA Risk Management Agency offers a variety of crop and revenue insurance programs to New Hampshire farmers. These programs are a valuable part of many farm operators' risk management strategies because they provide protection against production and income losses due to natural disasters and market fluctuations.
"For a farmer starting out, crop insurance is an absolute necessity. Crop losses two out of my first three years would have been a financial disaster without crop insurance. It's the best investment you can make."
- Rob Laroque, Carter Hill Orchard, Concord, NH
Crop insurance is subsidized with federal funds and sold by private crop insurance agents. In recent years, production on over 8,000 acres planted to corn and 600 acres in apple orchards have been insured under crop specific programs in the State. In addition, five million dollars of gross margin liability insurance was purchased by dairy farmers.
Crop Insurance Basics
- About the Risk Management Agency
- RMA Outreach Programs
- NH Crop Profile
- Requesting Insurance Not Available in Your County
- Guide to Agricultural Risk Management
If you would like to share your experience with crop or revenue insurance, email michal.lunak@unh.edu or mary.staak@rma.usda.gov.
Further information on New Hampshire educational programs can be obtained by contacting a member of the Risk Management Planning Group. For general information about risk management and crop insurance, the following links are useful:
- RMA Online, USDA Risk Management Agency
- The Northeast Center for Risk Management Education
- National Ag Risk Management Education Library
- New Hampshire Farm Service Agency
- New Hampshire Cooperative Extension
- NOFA-NH
- Crop Growers LLP
- Arthur Carroll Crop Insurance Agency
- New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation
- Granite State Association of FFA
- Small & Beginning Farmers of New Hampshire
- Organization for Refugee & Immigrant Success
Companies Actively Underwriting Policies in New Hampshire
Insurance Agent List
Portable Document Format (.pdf). Visit nh.gov for a list of free .pdf readers for a variety of operating systems.
NH Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food
Mailing: PO Box 2042, Concord NH 03302 -2042
Physical: 25 Capitol Street, Second Floor, Concord, NH 03301
(603) 271-3551 | fax: (603) 271-1109