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Farmers rely on crop insurance when nature turns on them
Story Date: 3/5/2013
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Source: Tom Zacharia, President National Crop Insurance Services, THE HILL, 3/1/13
There is a huge story playing out right before our very eyes this year in agriculture that nearly everyone is missing: Despite the fact that this nation has faced two of the worst farming years in decades – with devastating drought in the Southern Plains and flooding in the Midwest in 2011, and widespread drought over major corn and soybean growing regions in 2012 – there has not been a single call for an ad hoc disaster bill from America’s crop farmers.
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