AFBF’s Thatcher Discusses Crop Insurance as a Key Part of Farm Safety Net
There are going to be more challenges to the writing of the 2012 Farm Bill than agriculture has ever seen, said the American Farm Bureau Federation Senior Director of Congressional Relations Mary Kay Thatcher, during a recent interview with the National Association of Farm Broadcasting that ran nationally. “We don’t have as much money to […]
The 2011 Crop Year is Off to a Challenging Start
The hopes of the largest and most profitable harvest in U.S. history are being placed into question by a series of historic weather events that are inflicting major damage to America’s agricultural heartland. A cold spring followed by heavy, constant rain and flooding in the corn belt has resulted in extensive delays in plantings with […]
