Adjuster Kari Schilling
Farmer Robert Geddes
CROP INSURANCE IN ACTION: Paul Penner, Hillsboro, Kansas
In 2012, the drought in Kansas was in its second year, and wheat, corn and soybean farmer Paul Penner was just trying to survive to the next season. Crop insurance has been Penner’s lifeline for the last two years and the years before that. It has given him and his wife, Deborah, the means and […]
CROP INSURANCE IN ACTION: Tom & Mike Audet, Orwell, Vermont
Ledge Haven Farm might be one of those Vermont farms that would be most likely to end up on a postcard. The place is just about everything you would think of when you put the words Vermont and agriculture together. The 550-acre farm, owned by brothers Tom and Mike Audet, is a family-run dairy and […]
CROP INSURANCE IN ACTION: Andy Bell, Climax, Georgia
On the first Saturday after Thanksgiving, you can chase a greased pig in the southwestern Georgia town of Climax as it celebrates its Swine Time Festival, which normally draws up to 30,000 people in an area where only 300 people live. There is also corn shucking and a squeal-off. Climax is the highest point on […]
CROP INSURANCE IN ACTION: Jerry McReynolds, Woodston, Kansas
On land where wheat stalks heavy with grain would normally wave on a breeze in the late summer, the searing drought of 2012 zapped nearly every inch of land across the Kansas plains, leaving it burnt and lifeless. There was no way to hide from the drought in the Grain Belt. Just one year after […]
CROP INSURANCE IN ACTION: Todd & Ty Williams
Todd and Ty Williams grew up on their family’s farm near Gruver, Texas, a town of about 1,100 people in the panhandle region. Todd Williams says he’s been driving a tractor since he was about seven years old, so it was just the natural course of events that he and his brother Ty would end […]
CROP INSURANCE IN ACTION: Cash Ruane, North Clarendon, Vermont
It’s perhaps no great coincidence that Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream was founded in Burlington, Vermont, given that dairy is the Green Mountain State’s largest agriculture industry. Cash Ruane, from North Clarendon, Vermont, is one of those Vermont dairy farmers. Cash has been farming his whole life, starting his own farming business with his beloved […]
New NCIS Video: Criticisms Against Farmers Who Purchase Crop Insurance Naïve, Untrue
Critics who said that farmers who purchased crop insurance were “praying for drought, not praying for rain” or were “laughing all the way to the bank” during last summer’s historic drought were strongly rebuked by farmers, crop insurance agents and claims adjusters in a new video released by National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS). Marvin Andris, […]
Crop Insurance One Way to Help Protect Farmers
Right before our very eyes, the nation’s specialty crop capital has turned into the nation’s frozen food section, as the San Joaquin Valley suffered several consecutive nights of freezing temperatures. While the extent of the damage to some crops could take weeks to assess, one thing is clear: Some farmers will take a big loss. […]
