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	<title>Crop Insurance &#38; Crop Protection from Federal Crop Insurance Programs</title>
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		<title>Do No Harm to Farm Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;do no harm&#8221; to crop insurance, which has become the front line risk &#8230; <a href="http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/do-no-harm-to-farm-insurance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CROP INSURANCE IN ACTION:  Marvin Jensen, Kensington, Minnesota</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>langstraatl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/crop-insurance-in-action-marvin-jensen-kensington-minnesota/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Agriculture Committee Approves Farm Bill with Broad Bipartisan Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>langstraatl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/senate-agriculture-committee-approves-farm-bill-with-broad-bipartisan-support/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NCIS Responds to Environmental Working Group&#8217;s Accusations &#8211; May 1, 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 19:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>langstraatl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent report prepared by Bruce Babcock and funded by the Environmental Working Group calls crop insurance &#8220;a bloated, taxpayer-funded income support program” and that farmers are profiting from the 2012 drought because of crop insurance. Is this true? Absolutely &#8230; <a href="http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/ncis-responds-to-environmental-working-groups-accusations-may-1-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Farmers Shoulder Nearly $17 Billion in Losses in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 14:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>langstraatl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/farmers-shoulder-nearly-17-billion-in-losses-in-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Good Farming Practices Aren’t Always Enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>langstraatl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Bridgeforth It is hard to talk about the state of Alabama without mentioning agriculture. Alabama boasts more than 48,000 farms, covering roughly 28 percent of the state. But being a farmer in the Deep South – given our &#8230; <a href="http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/good-farming-practices-arent-always-enough/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Crop Insurance Affordable in New Farm Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>langstraatl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bing Von Bergen There is a lot of buzz in Washington again this year about the prospects of a farm bill. For those of us in agriculture, a five-year farm bill is one of the few things Congress can &#8230; <a href="http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/keep-crop-insurance-affordable-in-new-farm-bill/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CROP INSURANCE IN ACTION:  Bill Bridgeforth, Tanner, Alabama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>langstraatl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In a typical year, with five different crops in the ground, it seems like we farm all the time,” said Bill Bridgeforth, a fourth generation farmer from Tanner, Alabama, in the state’s northeast corner. Bridgeforth farms 10,000 acres of cotton, &#8230; <a href="http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/crop-insurance-in-action-bill-bridgeforth-tanner-alabama/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion column: President’s proposals would undermine agriculture’s success</title>
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		<comments>http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/opinion-column-presidents-proposals-would-undermine-agricultures-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>langstraatl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) Earlier this month, President Barack Obama released his budget even though it was due on Feb. 4. While the House and Senate have already passed 10-year budget resolutions and the president’s proposals have little chance &#8230; <a href="http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/opinion-column-presidents-proposals-would-undermine-agricultures-success/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NCIS Releases ‘Crop Insurance:  Just the Facts’</title>
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		<comments>http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/ncis-releases-crop-insurance-just-the-facts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>langstraatl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the nation’s crop insurers prepare for the Farm Bill and funding deliberations in the future, National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) has released a detailed question-and-answer resource laying out the facts about crop insurance and dispelling some of the most &#8230; <a href="http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/ncis-releases-crop-insurance-just-the-facts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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