Rain puts farmers on insurance deadline watch

Kansas farmer Mark Nelson had until Saturday to plant his corn or lose the insurance that protects him from a drop in prices or yield. Instead, he’s hopping on a plane to visit his father in Chicago.
Nelson is now considering a different type of insurance coverage known as prevented-plant claims, which pay out when farmers are unable to sow crops at all. With unceasing rain keeping farmers out of fields, growers are increasingly weighing how best to get paid and ease the impact from the bad weather and an escalating US-China trade war.You hate to farm for insurance, but in a year like this, you keep that in the back of your mind,Nelson, whose farm is near the east-central town of Paola, said by phone.