{"id":10349,"date":"2019-01-18T10:34:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T16:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.52.184.4\/~cropinsuranceina\/?p=10349"},"modified":"2021-03-13T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T17:11:35","slug":"crop-insurance-in-action-mike-abbott","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/crop-insurance-in-action-mike-abbott\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Abbott, Davenport, Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-bg-style-scroll  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap sidebar_right' style='background-color: #719430;  '  ><div class='container' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-10349'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; color:#ffffff;' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h1 custom-color-heading blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Mike Abbott, Davenport, Washington<\/h1><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' style='border-color:#ffffff'><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-10349'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><a href=\"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mike-Abbott.mov\">Mike Abbott<\/a> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10351 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0321-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0321-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0321-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0321-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0321-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>If you\u2019ve ever traveled in central and eastern Washington in the summer, you couldn\u2019t miss seeing the vast wheat fields that seem to go on for miles and miles. Washington farmers planted just over 2.2 million acres of winter and spring wheat in 2016. And more than 90 percent of that wheat was protected by crop insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Abbott grew up on a family farm just north of Davenport, Washington, and now farms with his brother in the areas of Davenport and Harrington. They grow wheat and barley and understand first hand why buying crop insurance is so important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrop insurance gives us a security blanket in bad years,\u201d Abbott said.<\/p>\n<p>2015 was not a good year for the Abbotts or any farmer in Washington. An unusual drought affected the state and farms lost more than $335 million in agricultural outputs. The brothers relied on crop insurance for their loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d rather not collect crop insurance to be honest with you,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to have, but if there are any critics out there, I\u2019d say take one year in my shoes\u2014on a bad year\u2014and we will see if you like crop insurance, because it has saved most of the farmers out here the past two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbott understands and appreciates the government support for crop insurance, which keeps farmers in business and taxpayers off the hook completely when a natural disaster hits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe premium [support] that taxpayers pay is very important. On low years\u2014low [harvest] and low commodity price years\u2014anything helps us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike feels strongly about the importance of agriculture in the United States and keeping the next generation on the farm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have three kids; my son is a junior at the University of Idaho, taking Ag Business. He wants to come back to the farm someday, as well as my brother\u2019s kids. So, it\u2019s important to keep the family farm in business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Farmers like Mike and his brother all across the state help support the rural areas where they live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgriculture is very important to the economy around Davenport, Harrington, and all of the small towns,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cIt supports the community and without agriculture, the towns would probably [disappear].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":10351,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10349","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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