A crop insurance manager says the industry is preparing for more challenges to crop insurance in the next farm bill. Doug Yoder, with Country Financial points to the challenges to the 2014 farm bill, “When it went to the full Senate floor for debate, 236 amendments were launched attacking crop insurance. Now, we successfully – thanks to our member involvement – beat off, held off all of those changes except one. That conservation compliance tied to the premium discounts, that’s the only thing that ended up passing.”
Yoder says there WILL be other attempts to reduce or eliminate crop insurance in the next farm bill and urges farmers to contact their representatives in Washington to protect it.
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