AFBF’s Thatcher Discusses Crop Insurance as a Key Part of Farm Safety Net
There are going to be more challenges to the writing of the 2012 Farm Bill than agriculture has ever seen, said the American Farm Bureau Federation Senior Director of Congressional Relations Mary Kay Thatcher, during a recent interview with the National Association of Farm Broadcasting that ran nationally. “We don’t have as much money to […]
2012 Farm Bill Should Hold The Thin Green Line
Minnesota has more at stake than most in 2012 farm bill. Rural America has been abuzz lately about a term coined by retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark to describe the challenge of feeding more and more Americans with fewer and fewer farmers. His phrase, “hold the thin green line,” sums up what many of us […]
