USDA expands crop insurance coverage for camelina in counties including in Montana

Press release

U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency announced it will expand insurance for camelina in the Southern Plains and Pacific Northwest regions, providing additional grower certainty as demand for the renewable fuel feedstock crop rises across the US.

The newly adopted program by the USDA RMA now allows written agreements in select counties in Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Washington.

Global Clean Energy Holdings Inc. and its subsidiary Sustainable Oils, Inc., the world’s largest camelina producer, collaborated...