Library of Congress Adds Crop Insurance Website to its Historical Collection
National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) announced today that its website has been selected by the United States Library of Congress (LOC) to be part of America’s historic collection of Internet materials. For nearly two decades, the LOC has catalogued digital materials spanning a variety themes, events, and issue areas with the purpose of capturing records […]
Technology, Sustainability, and Insurance Essential to Agriculture’s Future
Farmers and ranchers are tasked with producing more food and fiber than ever to meet the world’s growing appetite, and they have to do it while preserving scarce natural resources and dealing with extreme weather and volatile markets. A combination of new technology, smarter farming practices, and government policies will be required to succeed, according […]
‘Crop Insurance: Just the Facts’ Update Released at Global Conference
As insurance leaders from more than 30 nations gather here to discuss farm policy and the challenges facing the global agricultural sector, National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) today released an updated version of “Crop Insurance: Just the Facts.” This resource has been one of the most popular destinations on the NCIS website for years, and […]
USDA Under Secretary Scuse on Crop Insurance: “I wouldn’t dream of farming without it.”
USDA’s under secretary for Farm and Foreign Ag Services, Michael Scuse, openly admits he didn’t always buy crop insurance on his Delaware farm back in the 1980s and 90s. But today, he wouldn’t consider farming without it. “Back in the 1980s and 90s, you couldn’t give me crop insurance. It didn’t work on my farm,” […]
Hollis, Oklahoma farmer: Affordable crop insurance is critical
I started farming and ranching with my father and grandfather in southwest Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle 40 years ago, and I am the fourth generation to farm cotton, peanuts, wheat, corn, milo and cattle on our family’s land. I was 17 when I started farming on my own, and although I have four decades […]
