Eric Brammeier News Today

For Eric Brammeier and many of his neighbors and other farmers throughout southwestern Illinois, June 30 was the day that saved the crop.

For Eric Brammeier, who farms and owns a crop insurance business, August is about waiting for harvest — and harvest prices to be set.

Hail damage and wind damage are crop insurance claims that Eric Brammeier is used to seeing in his off-farm job as owner and agent of SC Crop Insurance.

By Julie Ingwersen CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. farmers expanded plantings of winter wheat by 11% from a year ago to an eight-year peak, encouraged by hig...

But even with the added acres, a multi-year drought that has gripped the key Plains wheat belt puts harvest prospects in doubt.