Crop Insurance: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
When the levees broke and the floodwaters came rushing toward many Midwest towns, government officials asked me to make an enormous sacrifice. They needed soil from my farmland to extend and build up a levee to hold back an unprecedented wall of water. If I said yes, it would save millions of dollars for businesses, […]
Don’t Hurt the Farmers That Feed Us
It’s one of the great ironies of our time that the richest nation on earth, with the most productive agriculture sector the world has ever seen, would have so many citizens who live with food insecurity, the fear of not knowing where theirnext meal is coming from. The fact that many of these citizens are […]
