Jenny Ifft

Robin Reid and Jenny Ifft focus on ARC, PLC and SCO programs and all that these programs offer. With the March 15 deadline fast approaching, Robin shares everything that a producer should consider when deciding to sign up. Jenny highlights high coverage options such as ECO and SCO and shares that these crop insurance options are little more expensive up front, but have larger pay offs in the end.

This tool helps corn, grain sorghum, soybean, and wheat producers analyze the relationship between their yields and county-level yields, which can be useful in deciding whether or not to use high coverage policies such as the Supplement Coverage Option (SCO) and the Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO). Producers will need to have yield records to use the tool.

Jenny Ifft provides information on Pasture, Rainfall, and Forage Insurance including how the product works, payments that producers have received in the past year, and the upcoming sign-up deadline.

K-State agricultural policy specialist, Jenny Ifft, and Kansas Livestock Association chief executive officer, Matt Teagarden, discuss the current labor crisis in agriculture, including policy issues such as the H-2A visa program. They are joined by Ryan and Laura Haffner, owners of High Plains Harvesting, who contribute insight into the hardships that they face as business owners when it comes to finding and securing labor. They also discuss the shortcomings of current policy when it comes to securing agricultural labor in the United States with such a competitive agricultural labor market globally.