New Frontier Ag Risk

07/30/2026

Nice shot of rain, around 1” in town with chances of more tonight.

But here’s an update with latest drought monitor map.

The USDA produces an “Ag in Drought” bulletin to detail specific crops and livestock that are currently affected by drought conditions. Read more to see the latest. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

07/29/2026

2026 was a huge year for the Livestock Risk Protection program, with the state of Nebraska writing $2.53 Billion dollars in livestock coverage.

There's a reason this product has gained popularity. With record-high prices and volatile markets, producers want to provide a price floor for their cattle.

Give us a call today at (402) 748-3944 for more information, we can go over the basics, go over scenarios, and anything in between.

07/23/2026

We've looked at what LRP is, how it works, and who it can benefit. Today, we'll take a look at scenarios for producers when the market goes down, or actually goes up during an LRP endorsement.

LRP allows cattle producers to protect a future selling price before the cattle are actually sold.

For example:

🐂 You plan to sell 50 head of 900-lb steers in the future.

You choose a coverage period and in this example insure a price of $2.38/lb.

If the applicable LRP ending value falls below your insured price at the end of the coverage period, LRP can provide an indemnity to help offset the decline.

📉 The market goes down?

LRP can help protect the price you locked in. Insured receives an indemnity for the insured value minus the lower ending value.

📈 The market goes up?

You still get the higher market price — and LRP doesn't prevent you from benefiting from a rising market.

LRP isn't about trying to predict the market.

It's about protecting your operation from a price drop that could significantly impact your bottom line.

📲 Have cattle you'll be selling in the next few months? Let's look at what price protection could look like for your operation.

07/22/2026

We've talked about what exactly Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) does and how it works, today we're going to go over who it is for.

A lot of people we talk to think that LRP is only for big feedlot operations, but that's not the case at all.

LRP is a very versatile program that can be used for a variety of cattle operations and even has a minimum head limit of 1. Although we do write it for large feedlots, we work with smaller producers a lot of the time as well.

Typically write it for these three types of producers:

🟢 Cow-calf producers planning on selling calves
🟢 Stocker/background operations
🟢 Feedlots managing price risk on fed cattle

Basic questions we will ask a producer are:

🟡 How many head will you have?
🟡 When do you expect to sell?
🟡 What weight do you expect them to reach at sale?

If you can answer these, LRP may be worth looking at.

The goal isn't to predict the market, but simply to protect your operation in the event of a price decline that could impact you bottom line.

If you have questions, please send a message or reach out to Brianna or Garret, our LRP sales agents.

07/21/2026

Yesterday we gave a pretty basic idea of what Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) is. Today we'll go into a little more detail and give an example of how it actually protects cattle producers in real life.

Simple Example:

🟡 You have 50 head of steers
🟡 You have an expected finish weight on those steers of 1,600 lb
🟡 You expect to sell these steers 200 days from now
🟡 Expected total sale weight: 800 CWT (80,000 lbs)

You call Brianna or Garret and they give you all your options for coverage. For this example, we'll say we choose the 30 week interval, that covers us until 02/15/2027. You take a 100% coverage level, locking a floor of $223.98.

Now we fast forward to the end of our coverage endorsement and the final ending value is only $215.00.

So this is how the final math works out:

🟠 50 head of steers insured at 1600lb target weight (800 cwt)
🟠 Future sale price locked in at $223.98/cwt
🟠 Final SCE value is $215.00
🟠 Price decline: $8.98/cwt
🟠 800 cwt x $8.98 = $7,184 indemnity (before any premium)

You receive a $7,184 check due to the loss in value of your steers.

07/20/2026

This week we're going to be highlighting a product that's gained a ton of popularity over the last few years- Livestock Risk Protection, commonly just referred to as "LRP".

LRP is a federally subsidized insurance program that can help protect the value of your cattle against a decline in the market price.

LRP can be used for:

🟢 Fed Cattle
🟢 Feeder Cattle
🟢 Unborn Cavles
🟢 Swine

The livestock producer gets to choose:

☑️ Number of head to insure
☑️ Coverage level
☑️ Length of the coverage

It's a pretty simple insurance policy honestly, you can look at it as simply setting a floor to protect your cattle's future value.

We'll be going over some more details on this product and some examples to help better understand LRP this week.

07/08/2026

Here's the March-April interval map for Pasture, Rangeland, & Forage rainfall based coverages. No surprises here as we knew much of Nebraska was extremely dry.

07/07/2026

📅 Important Date - July 15th 📅

Acreage Reporting season is approaching next week, and timely reporting is an important step in the crop insurance cycle.

When you bring in your FSA 578s or precision farming data we will:

✅ Verify crop types and irrigation practices
✅ Report planted acres and plant dates
✅ Review replanted and prevent plant acres
✅ Verify FSA documents are complete and accurate

Missing the deadline could impact your coverage and claim eligibility so don't hesitate.

If you haven't completed your acreage report yet, give us a call today and we'll make sure everything is filled out correctly.

📱 Call Garret or Brianna today at (402) 748-3944 if you have any questions, thank you!

07/03/2026

New Frontier will be closed Friday, July 3rd.

We wish you a happy and safe Independence Day this weekend!

06/10/2026

Daily sight this time of year.

Acres getting reported and summaries of coverage going out every day to customers.

July 15th is our Acreage Reporting Deadline. Stop in with your 578s or precision farming data if you already haven’t!

Contact Garret or Brianna if you have any questions.