North Carolina Apple Grower Says Crop Insurance Key to Food Security
Kenny Barnwell is a fifth-generation apple grower in the mountains of North Carolina. His family farm covers approximately 150 acres and is home to 26 different varieties of apples. This year has been tough for apple growers in North Carolina, much like farmers across the country. Apple growers have faced weather-related damages to their crop […]
Texas Family Says Crop Insurance Saved Their Farm
Valerie Diller met her husband Michael while they were students at West Texas State University. They decided to return to his hometown of Texline, start a farm and raise a family. About two years after they started farming, a terrible hailstorm destroyed all of their wheat and badly damaged the corn crop. Fortunately, they had […]
Thank a Farmer This Labor Day
Labor Day is a day to celebrate the achievements of the millions of men and women who keep America running. This year, don’t forget to thank a farmer. Approximately 2.6 million Americans work directly on a farm. Nearly 20 million more work in food and other agricultural-related industries. Farming and ranching are certainly not your […]
Texas Farmer Hopes for Rain, Counts on Crop Insurance
Rain in West Texas can be scarce. So scarce, in fact, that farmer Brett Schniers wrote in a recent op-ed for the San Angelo Standard-Times that “when you lay down at night, you pray for rain because you don’t know when you’ll see it again.” Despite the incredible promise of 2020, it has been a […]
Wheat Growers Count on Crop Insurance
This year, America’s farmers and ranchers have faced one challenge after another. For wheat farmers in the west and Midwest, their crop is now threatened by severe drought conditions that could contribute to yield reductions or total crop loss. Thankfully, more than 90 percent of insurable planted acres are protected by crop insurance, including many […]
Maryland Farmer Thankful for Crop Insurance During Uncertain Year
In farming, the future is never certain. It requires trust that a planted seed will sprout and then flourish and hope that weather or market conditions will not upend that year’s crop. One thing America’s farmers and ranchers did not predict this year: a global health care crisis. Brooks Clayville grows row crops on his […]
Crop Insurance Protects Essential Food and Fiber Supply
Steve Ward talks to as many lawmakers as he can about farming. Specifically, growing cranberries. Ward grew up helping his dad on the family farm in Massachusetts, building cranberry bogs and digging ditches. Now, he farms that land with his son. But growing cranberries is extremely labor intensive and carries a large amount of risk, […]
America’s Farmers Remain Open to Feed America
Chip and Karla Bailey own KC Bailey Orchards in Williamson, New York, where they grow apples. They’re proud to help provide for their neighbors as well as customers across America, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The past few months have resulted in some dramatic changes in our daily lives, but for America’s farmers, like the […]
NY Apple Farmer: Hope Has Not Been Cancelled
A family apple farm in New York is reminding America that farmers are still out there growing essential food, fiber and fuel. Chip and Carla Bailey produced a video at their KC Bailey Orchard in Williamson, NY, with a simple message: Hope has not been cancelled. “Because of COVID-19 a lot of things have been […]
Crop Insurance Backs Farmers During Unprecedented Uncertainty
Crop insurance has been there for rural America through the many uncertainties that farmers and ranchers face every single day. It’s helped agricultural producers survive droughts, tornados, blizzards, floods, low prices, prevented plantings and even volcanos. Still, over the past few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced new and unprecedented challenges as farmers navigate supply […]
