A Broad Spectrum of Voices from All Corners of Agriculture Sing the Praises of Crop Insurance
The recent Farm Bill hearing in Wichita, Kansas has been called “a crop insurance pep rally” by some who point to the fact that when a panel of farmers and producers were asked by Senate Ag Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) what they thought was the most important farm policy, the answer was “crop insurance.” […]
Crop Insurance Takes A Disproportionate Share of Cuts
In the President’s budget reduction proposal released yesterday, crop insurance and the farmers who both support it and depend on it are once again being asked to shoulder a disproportionate portion of the budget cuts. In response to being asked to take more than $8 billion in budget cuts over the next decade, Tom Zacharias, […]