Don’t Throw Specialty Crops Under the Bus
It’s wonderful to extol the benefits of fresh fruits and vegetables, to urge them to be made more available in our schools and restaurant menus and to fight to better educate the public about the growing body of research that shows fruits and vegetables are critical to promoting good health. But what about fighting for […]
Congress Looks to Take Another Bite Out of Farmer’s Crop Insurance
It’s not uncommon for a bank to ask for proof of insurance prior to lending you money. If the car, boat, or home for which you are seeking financing is destroyed, the bank needs some peace of mind that insurance will be there to cover the loss of its investment. Agricultural loans are no different—except those loans are much larger than the […]
Keeping Crop Insurance Strong
This ongoing series presents one of the many strengths of crop insurance per month and details how the sum of the 12 essential crop insurance strengths has given us the successful program we have today. These strengths are especially important as policy makers contemplate further cuts to farm safety net policies. Strength: Producers do not […]
Rural America’s Roller Coaster
Things were going well in rural America. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City credited small towns, specifically farming communities, with leading the country’s recession recovery in 2010. Farm household incomes climbed. Agricultural exports reached new records. Buying power from the Heartland trickled out to the coasts. Farm policies came in well under budget. Crop […]
