A bipartisan group of senators joined some Corn Belt farm groups in appealing to the Agriculture Department to ease restrictions on haying and grazing of cover crops. Crop insurance rules bar harvesting or grazing of cover crops on prevented planting acreage before Nov. 1. Farm groups, who want that date moved up, say that producers are already struggling to find adequate forage and feed. “Cover crops will be an important soil building and risk management tool on 2019 crop year acres prevented from being planted due to the extremely wet spring planting season,” the senators wrote. (Agri-Pulse)