Learn what crop insurance covers

TNLA and MTNA have invited personnel with the USDA RISK MANAGEMENT AGENCY that oversees Crop Insurance to respond to nursery producer questionsabout what is and what is not covered by Crop Insurance. Part of thediscussion will center on plants less than 18 inches being excluded fromcoverage.

Two opportunities are planned. The first meeting will be Thursday, May 3, at 6 p.m. and the second meeting will be Friday morning, May 4, at 8 a.m. Both are the same program. But the program is really a question andanswer opportunity.

The gatherings will be at the TSU Nursery Research Center. I doubt that any insurance companies will be present because they are not the problem.

Please make plans to attend one of these meetings. During the meetings, remember what our mothers would say, ?You can accomplish more with honey than with vinegar.?

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Tennessee now has 712 certified nursery producers growing 52,981 certified acres of nursery stock & 13,134,541 containers.

The six counties I am assigned to (Warren, Coffee, DeKalb, Franklin, Grundy and Van Buren) have 396 producers with 36,559 acres & 10 million containers.

Warren county has 259 producers, 23,000 acres & 3.5 million containers. DeKalb county has 5.6 million containers.

A group of 103 nurseries with 16,661 acres are now under Fire Ant Quarantine.