Crop Insurance Helpful for Ohio Farmers

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The National Climatic Data Center reported that as the 2012 drought deepened and expanded this summer, it became one of the six largest droughts in modern record keeping. Here in Ohio, you really didn’t need a weather expert to tell you just how bad it was. And before the rains finally came – which were too late for many of crop – the fields were so […]

Crop insurance: Smart, fiscally responsible farm policy

Every county in the state of Iowa is experiencing severe or extreme drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. This time last near, not a single county in the state was experiencing drought. In fact, it would be fair to say that farmers saw quite the opposite conditions last year, especially here in western […]

New video offers insight into dramatic losses in the Heartland

OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — With the vast majority of the U.S. corn, cotton, soybean and sorghum crops yet to be harvested, crop insurance companies have already paid out nearly $2 billion in indemnities to farmers who have suffered losses this year. “America’s heartland has taken a beating from Mother Nature and the crop insurance industry […]

Drought Update – September 25, 2012

The portion of the lower 48 states experiencing moderate to exceptional drought increased yet again, to 65%, according to the September 18 U.S. Drought Monitor. In 41%of those states, the drought conditions are considered “severe, extreme or exceptional.” In addition, 54%of the country was in moderate drought or worse. The majority of the country’s corn and soybean acres are affected, and while […]

Crop Insurance Helpful for Ohio Farmers

The National Climatic Data Center reported that as the 2012 drought deepened and expanded this summer, it became one of the six largest droughts in modern record keeping. Here in Ohio, you really didn’t need a weather expert to tell you just how bad it was. And before the rains finally came – which were too late for many of crop – the fields were so dry they […]

No, Virginia, this is not West Texas

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Northeast Indiana looks more like West Texas this summer than America’s heartland. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, nearly 70 percent of the state, including a wide swath from around the Kentucky border in the south, north through Fort Wayne and all the way to the Michigan border is in an “extreme or exceptional” drought. Sadly, […]