The USDA is improving crop insurance options for organic stone fruit producers, giving them more flexibility beginning with the 2027 crop year.
The Risk Management Agency is allowing producers to select Enterprise Units or Optional Units by organic farming practice for those crops.
RMA Administrator Pat Swanson says the change gives organic and transitional growers the same unit-structure flexibility available to conventional producers.
Enterprise Units combine eligible acreage into a single insurance unit, while Optional Units allow producers to divide acreage into smaller units based on practices or land location.
That means losses on one unit can be settled without being offset by production from another.
The option applies wherever coverage is available.
Eligible stone fruit includes apricots, peaches, nectarines, and plums.
Producers should contact their crop insurance agent before their sales closing date to discuss coverage and unit options.
