Crop Insurance Critical to Colorado Farmers
National Crop and Insurance Services (NCIS) is on the road this year to speak first-hand with farmers, ranchers and insurance adjusters across the country about the unique challenges they face and the importance of crop insurance. The consensus is clear—crop insurance is one tool that farmers simply cannot do without. In this What’s Cropping Up, […]
ICYMI: Crop Insurance Helps Preserve Farming for Future Generations
Farming is a unique profession in so many ways. First, it is more like a calling — to be part of God’s gifts here, and a steward of these gifts. To follow a crop from seed to harvest, or to see an animal born and grow to maturity — that’s a lot of the reason […]
New Series Documents Crop Insurance’s Importance as Congress Hammers Out Farm Bill
Farmers across the nation spent the dog days of summer praying for more rain, or less rain, harvesting wheat, worrying about failed corn crops and wondering how far commodity prices will drop. And in Washington, lawmakers spent the hot summer hammering out their differences in the Farm Bill – a critical piece of legislation the […]
Farmers in Ohio, Kentucky Advocate for Crop Insurance
A pair of soybean farmers in America’s heartland are urging Congress to leave crop insurance alone as it debates the 2018 Farm Bill with columns published recently in newspapers in both states. Scott Metzger, who farms with his family at Metzger Family Farms in Williamsport, Ohio, offered his story of decades of heartbreak that came […]
ICYMI: Crop Insurance Must be Protected in Upcoming Farm Bill
As the Farm Bill is being debated in Washington, one thing that I, as president of the Montana Grain Growers, am committed to emphasizing is the importance of crop insurance. Put simply, crop insurance is cornerstone of our nation’s farm policy, with 90 percent of farmland today enrolled in the program. In Montana, that accounts […]
Farmers Urge Congress to Back Crop Insurance in New Video
For more than a year, farmers from across the country have urged the U.S. House Agriculture Committee to maintain a strong crop insurance system in the 2018 Farm Bill. And now, you can hear the farmers’ messages in their own words. The Committee on Tuesday released a video testimony from its nationwide hearings that details the […]
ICYMI: Crop Insurance Protects Farming for Future Generations
Wheat farmers in the heartland are facing tough times. Prices have bottomed out, Mother Nature has been unrelenting and this year’s wheat harvest was well below average. On our five-generation family farm in Sentinel, the story is no different. Our wheat acres were down just like nearly everybody else who grows the crop. And unfortunately, […]
Thank a Farmer, It’s Thanksgiving and They Helped Make It Possible
As your family sits down to a Thanksgiving meal this week, take a look around at all the wonderful food and consider where it came from. The sweet potatoes, peas, corn, rice and the wheat in the bread. The cranberries in the sauce and the sugar and pumpkin in the pie. The onions and tomatoes […]
ICYMI: Crop Insurance Critical for Farmers and Consumers
The Farm Bill debate is heating up in Washington and that has me thinking back to 2015. We received way too much rainfall in central Missouri that spring and my family’s farm in Boone County, like many across the state, suffered big losses. We were only able to plant 40 out of our normal 500 […]
Farm Bureau President Urges Farmers to Speak Up for Crop Insurance
Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), is urging farmers to make their voices heard as the next Farm Bill is being considered. “Constantly communicate with (legislators) week in and week out,” he said during a recent visit to Indiana, where he met with members of the media. “And then when these […]
