Convo 33
Crop insurance “has come under unfair criticism. Those who report on it don’t understand it and its importance to the food supply.” He said it’s expensive to put a crop in the ground, and that a farmer could easily have half a million dollars at risk when “Mother Nature says you’re not going to have […]
Convo 32
The crop insurance program is very important to us and I don’t think there’s any better example of that than last year’s drought. On our farm in northwest Missouri we raised about half of what we anticipate raising.
Convo 31
We’ve paid about $17 billion in indemnities. I think that shows this program worked and it worked as it was intended. We got the money out to the producers and it’s going to help an awful lot of people stay in business that, had we not had a really good crop insurance, may not have […]
Convo 30
After two years without rain, Kansas producers are dealing with a severe drought. It is critical that risk management tools like crop insurance are in place to make certain the United States remains the most food-secure country in the world. Crop insurance is an example of a public-private partnership that uses taxpayers’ dollars wisely and […]
Convo 29
Crop insurance is the single most important risk management tool available to farmers today.
Convo 29
We have skin in the game. We aren’t just accepting a handout or subsidy from the government.
Convo 28
I can’t even imagine farming without crop insurance.
Convo 27
Crop insurance has prevented lots of farm stress that would have occurred without it.
Convo 26
But farmers aren’t the only group that has come to love crop insurance. Bankers love it too. That’s because when farmers approach bankers for production loans, bankers regard a crop insurance policy as a form of collateral. Additionally, bankers know that a farmer who has paid his own money for a crop insurance policy is […]
Convo 25
“The federal government provides crop insurance subsidies to farmers in part to achieve high crop insurance participation and coverage levels, which are intended, according to USDA economists, to reduce the need for ad hoc disaster assistance payment to help farmers recover from natural disasters which can be costly.”
