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Ag Bytes<br />
Hotline offers help<br />
for stress, legal<br />
questions and more<br />
The Iowa Concern Hotline number is<br />
800-447-1985. Iowa Concern is a program<br />
of the Iowa State University Extension<br />
service. The program began in 1985 as a<br />
toll-free number serving the agriculture<br />
community.<br />
Today, the toll-free number serves urban<br />
as well as rural Iowa. By calling Iowa<br />
Concern has one access to an attorney for<br />
legal education, stress counselors, and information<br />
and referral services for a wide<br />
variety of topics.<br />
In addition, Iowa Concern maintains a<br />
website, extension.iastate.edu/iowaconcern,<br />
featuring an extensive frequently<br />
asked questions database for legal, finance,<br />
crisis and disaster, and personal<br />
health issue.<br />
The website is also the link to Iowa Concern’s<br />
“Click here to chat with an Agent”<br />
service.<br />
Live chat immediately connects you<br />
with a stress counselor where you can<br />
“talk” (type) one-on-one in a secure environment.<br />
All Iowa Concern services are available<br />
24 hours a day, seven days a week at no<br />
charge.<br />
Crop margin<br />
protection helpful<br />
farm insurance tool<br />
Crop farmers have multiple ways to protect<br />
and insure their investments each year.<br />
While revenue protection and yield protection<br />
are the most popular in Iowa, farmers<br />
can also elect for margin protection.<br />
The margin is defined as the difference<br />
between the revenue (yield multiplied by<br />
sales price) and the costs of growing the<br />
crop. Margin protection insurance is available<br />
for corn and soybeans, rice and spring<br />
wheat.<br />
An indemnity is paid when the actual<br />
margin falls below the trigger margin,<br />
which is calculated using county-based<br />
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Let us pump it out of your pit and inject it into your ground.<br />
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