Greg Burger Presented Crop Insurance Industry Lifetime Achievement Award
Greg Burger, NAU Country (retired), was presented with a 2013 Crop Insurance Industry Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 Crop Insurance Industry Annual Convention. Greg Burger’s first job in 1964 was a contract adjuster, at the young age of 17. He continued in this role for 13 years when, in 1977, he became a full-time […]
Convo 22
But there are those who are making uninformed and uneducated criticisms about crop insurance – and America’s farmers – in the midst of this national tragedy. According to the Washington-based Environmental Working Group, farmers have been ‘praying for drought, not rain.’ Really? I’ve seen a lot of looks on the faces of my fellow farmers […]
Insurance important for farmers
It would be nice to talk about the great drought of 2012 in the past tense, but unfortunately, the entire state of Missouri remains in drought. But if Missouri’s farmers hadn’t purchased a crop insurance policy last year — as most do every year — they could have lost more than their crops. They could […]
2012 Drought Extends Its Grip Into 2013
The 2012 growing season has ended for most of the nation’s farmers, but the drought that dogged many of them appears here to stay. According to the December 11, U.S. Drought Monitor, nearly 62 percent of the continental United States remains in some stage of drought. Forty-three percent of that area is considered to be […]
US cuts crop insurance rates for soybeans, rice despite drought
Corn, cotton, sorghum, spring wheat rates revised too * USDA will phase in changes to cushion drought impact * Agency expects little impact on 2013 planting decisions WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. government has ordered crop insurers to charge lower premiums to soybean growers for the second year in a row as part […]
New NCIS Video Highlights Critical Role Adjusters Play
“Some of the same people who had to deal with the floods last year along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers are now dealing with the opposite – extreme drought,” says Calamus, Iowa, claims manager David Bousselot, in a new NCIS video. The video highlights the critical role that many of the 5,000 claims adjusters play […]
Hurricane Sandy Robs Some Delmarva Farmers of A Promising Harvest
Delmarva farmers weren’t directly in the eye of Hurricane Sandy when the storm slammed into the East Coast, but they were awful close. Most of the Delmarva Peninsula, comprised of Delaware and the Eastern shores of Maryland and Virginia, was just south of where the hurricane came ashore in Cape May, New Jersey. The peninsula […]
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 […]
Convo 20
If I hadn’t purchased a crop insurance policy this year to help me through an event like this, I possibly wouldn’t be able to farm again next year. But that’s the main reason why the federal government teamed up with the private sector years ago to form this public-private partnership that helps farmers manage their […]
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