# Important Changes to Crop Insurance for Oats and Hybrid Winter Rye

> USDA's Risk Management Agency changed crop insurance for oats, allowing crop revenue coverage priced off CBOT soft red winter wheat futures instead of oat futures. Hybrid winter rye varieties also become separately insurable, with written agreements required from 2025.

- Date: 2023-12-20 · published 2023-12-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/32757-important-changes-to-crop-insurance-for-oats-and-hybrid-winter-rye
- Commodities: [Oats](https://feedsoft.ai/c/OATS.md)

## Why it matters

The change affects how farmers hedge and insure oat production, which may influence planted acreage over time. The direct price impact on feed markets is limited.

## Read by commodity

- OATS: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OATS | 2021-08-15 | [Cabinet approves procedure for support of producers of buckwheat, rye, millet and oats - Aug. 15, 2021 \| KyivPost](https://feedsoft.ai/events/45607-cabinet-approves-procedure-for-support-of-producers-of-buckwheat-rye-millet-and.md) | +0.2% | -0.4% |
| OATS | 2024-02-17 | [Oats service charge for Manitobans increases at AGM - PembinaValleyOnline.com - Local news, Weather, Sports, Free Classifieds and Business Listings for the Pembina Valley, Manitoba](https://feedsoft.ai/events/31718-oats-service-charge-for-manitobans-increases-at-agm-pembinavalleyonline-com.md) | -2.2% | -6.5% |
| OATS | 2022-12-01 | [Release: USDA Expands Revenue Protection to Oat and Rye Producers - ProAg](https://feedsoft.ai/events/38293-release-usda-expands-revenue-protection-to-oat-and-rye-producers-proag.md) | -14.5% | -6.0% |
| OATS | 2024-01-25 | [CFTC fines Ceres Global Ag Corp $3 million for trying to manipulate oat futures prices_Hawk Insight](https://feedsoft.ai/events/32158-cftc-fines-ceres-global-ag-corp-3-million-for-trying-to-manipulate-oat-futures.md) | +4.6% | -0.8% |
| OATS | 2020-02-24 | [New Zealand: Plans to ban pre-harvest glyphosate in oats \| The Scottish Farmer](https://feedsoft.ai/events/54671-new-zealand-plans-to-ban-pre-harvest-glyphosate-in-oats-the-scottish-farmer.md) | -9.2% | -11.5% |

## Sources

- blog-crop-news.extension.umn.edu: https://blog-crop-news.extension.umn.edu/2023/12/important-changes-to-crop-insurance-for.html

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