CROP INSURANCE IN ACTION: Mike Quinn, Garner, North Carolina
If there’s anything the droughts of 2011 and 2012 taught American farmers, it’s the importance of being prepared for anything. That includes occasional years of dealing with dry conditions trying to grow the Carolinas’ homegrown cotton crop. Michael Quinn, the president and CEO of Carolinas Cotton Growers Cooperative, Inc., has witnessed how both droughts and […]
This Drought Just Isn’t Giving Up, But Farmers Aren’t Quitters
California’s central valley has been called America’s salad bowl, but honestly in the last four years, it looks more like a dust bowl than a vegetable garden. The historic drought has caused many California farmers to pay prices for water – just to keep their orchards alive – that most Americans would find unfathomable. Almond, […]
