WINDMILL COUNTRY: Farmers call crop insurance vital
During the recent U.S. House Committee on Agriculture field hearing in Lubbock, several West Texas farmers who testified expressed a need to strengthen federal crop insurance when the next farm bill is written. The ag committee had its seventh in a series of hearings on the Texas Tech University campus to review U.S. agriculture policy as […]
Farmer-friendly SRA alternatives
In a letter to U.S. farm organizations, crop insurance agents released an alternative to the massive crop insurance funding cuts—ranging from $8.4 to $6.9 billion—recently proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “What has been missing from this negotiation is a focus on what benefits the farmer,” said Ronnie Holt, Chairman of the Crop Insurance Professionals […]
