News Archive

2009

June

Who is best suited to provide crop insurance?
Sara Wyant, AgriPulse (via High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal) — June 12, 2009
A new report is likely to reignite the debate over who should deliver crop insurance policies to farmers and how those service providers should be compensated. Some say the federal government should stop paying so much in crop insurance subsidies, while others suggest that USDA employees could directly provide the same types of risk management tools. ...

Vilsack: Revitalize rural America
Ray Nabors, Delta Farm Press — June 11, 2009
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack visited the Delta Center in Portageville, Mo., recently for a rural community forum to discuss USDA plans to revitalize and rebuild rural America.

President Obama and I are committed to investing in and revitalizing rural communities, in part because they play an important role in our national and international food delivery system," Vilsack said...

Statement before the subcommittee on conservation, credit, energy and research.
Bob Frazee, President and CEO, MidAtlantic Farm Credit — June 11, 2009
Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today on behalf of the Farm Credit System. My name is Bob Frazee, and I am President and CEO of MidAtlantic Farm Credit. MidAtlantic is a part of the nationwide Farm Credit System. My remarks today will provide some background on the Farm Credit System, comments on current credit conditions and the impact of recent financial market disruptions, and discuss how we are working to meet the credit needs of agriculture in the geographic area served by my institution. ...

Crop Insurance; Biofuels; CFTC Issues; Climate Change; and Mexican Tariff Issues
Keith Good, FarmPolicy.com — June 2, 2009
Yesterday, the U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report entitled, "Crop Insurance: Opportunities Exist to Reduce the Costs of Administering the Program" (Full report, 43 pages; One-page recap). ...