Crop Insurance & Crop Protection from Federal Crop Insurance Programs

Convo 26

langstraatl — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:46 +0000

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 … Continue reading →

Farmers Shoulder Nearly $17 Billion in Losses in 2012

langstraatl — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:05 +0000

Before farmers received a single dime in crop insurance indemnity payments, they shouldered $12.7 billion in losses as part of their deductibles to crop insurance policies, according to a guest editorial published today by Tom Zacharias, president of National Crop … Continue reading →

NCIS, RMA Team Up To Help African American, Limited Resource Farmers Develop Risk Management Plans

langstraatl — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:59:04 +0000

Thanks to a joint effort between USDA’s Risk Management Agency and National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS), limited resource farmers and African American producers of specialty crops and under-served commodities in Mississippi and Arkansas were instructed on how to develop personal … Continue reading →

Crop Insurance: An Approach That Better Fits This Nation’s Fiscal Reality

langstraatl — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:58:46 +0000

The historic drought that wilted the corn and soybean fields of Illinois and other Midwest states was one of the costliest events to hit rural America in decades. As the nightly news reported, losses on farms in large swaths of … Continue reading →

Setting the Record Straight on Crop Insurance

langstraatl — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:28:26 +0000

By Tom Zacharias, National Crop Insurance Services Admittedly, opponents of farm policy attract more headlines than the men and women who put food on our tables and clothes on our backs. Then again, it is far easier to get attention … Continue reading →

Crop Insurance Fits Nation’s Fiscal Reality

langstraatl — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:22:31 +0000

By Patrick Solon, Streator, Illinois The historic 2012 drought that wilted the corn and soybean fields of Illinois and other Midwest states was one of the costliest events to hit rural America in decades. As the nightly news reported, losses … Continue reading →

Do No Harm to Farm Insurance

langstraatl — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:00 +0000

By Andrew Bowman, Oneida, Illinois Hearings have started in Washington on the next farm bill. I count myself as one of the many farmers who will stand together and urge Congress to “do no harm” to crop insurance, which has … Continue reading →

CROP INSURANCE IN ACTION: Marvin Jensen, Kensington, Minnesota

langstraatl — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:12:53 +0000

Local legend has it that a group of Vikings happened upon this part of west-central Minnesota in 1362 and left runic inscriptions on a piece of stone. Hundreds of years later, a local farmer found the stone, and the discovery … Continue reading →

Senate Agriculture Committee Approves Farm Bill with Broad Bipartisan Support

langstraatl — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:12:22 +0000

The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today voted to approve the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012, a bipartisan Farm Bill authored by Committee Chairwoman Senator Debbie Stabenow and Ranking Member Senator Pat Roberts. The … Continue reading →

NCIS Responds to Environmental Working Group’s Accusations – May 1, 2013

langstraatl — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:19:00 +0000

A recent report prepared by Bruce Babcock and funded by the Environmental Working Group calls crop insurance “a bloated, taxpayer-funded income support program” and that farmers are profiting from the 2012 drought because of crop insurance. Is this true? Absolutely … Continue reading →