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Importance of Crop Insurance Highlighted as Drought Widens

July 2012 |Topic: LEGISLATION

A drought specialist with the national weather service recently compared the drought and heat wave here in the Midwest with the catastrophic dry period of 1988 that at the time cost agriculture $78 billion. USDA Chief Economist Joe Glauber recently...

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Now I understand that when Congress starts trimming the budget, everyone is going to argue that their specific program deserves protection. While I can't speak for other aspects of federal spending, I can attest to the fact that crop insurance and other aspects of farm policy work for me. Without a doubt, they are the policies that keep family farms like mine in business and our nation food secure.

Greg Schwarz, president of the Minnesota Corn Growers Association

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Importance of Crop Insurance Highlighted as Drought Widens

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