Source: Sara Wyant, AGRI-PULSE, 11/22/16

Responding to criticism from USDA's Office of Inspector General (OIG), the department's Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced updated factors for prevented planting coverage. A 2013 OIG report looked at prevented planting claims from 2008 to 2011 - a time period when the agency paid producers about $4.6 billion in claims. 

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