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| https://www.heitkamp.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=80892490-a1fb-466a-a093-cb0967ac1ce0 | Heitkamp Encourages North Dakota Farmers and Ranchers to Make Use of New USDA Resources | 2014-08-27 | 2014 | 2014-08 | Democrat | House | ND | Heidi Heitkamp | H001069 | www.heitkamp.senate.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today encouraged North Dakotas farmers and ranchers to use new resources made possible through the 2014 Farm Bill which she fought to write and pass in the Senate to better prepare for and manage unforeseen risks. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released more information on the Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) for spring 2015 crops, another step forward in implementing the Farm Bill. Farmers and ranchers can now find SCO availability maps, commodity fact sheets, and additional information at USDAs Risk Management Agency (RMA) website, www.rma.usda.gov. USDA also built a new online Crop Insurance Decision Tool to help producers better understand SCO, which is available at http://prodwebnlb.rma.usda.gov/apps/CIDT/. This new tool will help North Dakotas farmers and ranchers learn more about how coverage is determined, when it pays, what approximate premium costs could be, and how it interacts with an underlying crop insurance policy. Making sure North Dakotas farmers and ranchers have all the information they need to make the best decisions for them and their families is absolutely essential, said Heitkamp. In the Farm Bill, I fought tirelessly to give our farmers and ranchers more support so they can do what they do best help feed North Dakota and the world. These new resources are another great step in implementing the Farm Bill and I will continue to work closely with USDA to make sure the Farm Bill works in a way thats best for North Dakotans. In crafting the Farm Bill, which reduces the deficit by more than $23 billion and supports 16 million jobs, Heitkamp successfully pushed for many priorities important to North Dakota. These include improving the crop insurance and the livestock disaster programs, preserving the Sugar Program, and providing historic investments in agricultural research and biofuels. Since the Farm Bill was signed into law, Heitkamp has also worked to make sure it is implemented properly. In the first month after the Farm Bill passed,she was successful inleading a bipartisan effort to get U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to expedite the new livestock disaster programs to help ranchers devastated by an unexpected fall blizzard. Heitkamp has alsoled an effort to support farmers who are prevented from planting crops due to adverse weather, as part of the newly-created safety net program in the Farm Bill. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |