{"id":11450,"date":"2020-07-23T09:02:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T14:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.52.184.4\/~cropinsuranceina\/?p=11450"},"modified":"2020-07-23T09:02:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T14:02:34","slug":"maryland-farmer-thankful-for-crop-insurance-during-uncertain-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/maryland-farmer-thankful-for-crop-insurance-during-uncertain-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Farmer Thankful for Crop Insurance During Uncertain Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

In farming, the future is never certain. It requires trust that a planted seed will sprout and then flourish and hope that weather or market conditions will not upend that year\u2019s crop.<\/p>\n

One thing America\u2019s farmers and ranchers did not predict this year: a global health care crisis.<\/p>\n

Brooks Clayville grows row crops on his family farm located on the eastern shore of Maryland. Clayville recently authored an op-ed for The Dispatch<\/a> sharing that, like many farmers, he began 2020 with high hopes before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold.<\/p>\n

\u201cCorn and soybean prices, for the first time in a long time, were expected to improve with the resolution to the ongoing trade wars that have hit rural communities hard,\u201d Clayville wrote. \u201cBut the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically interrupted our economy and our food supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every year, Clayville writes, he purchases crop insurance to help protect his crops and ensure that his family farm can survive any challenges that may arise. Including the current pandemic.<\/p>\n

Now, more than ever, Clayville believes that crop insurance is an important tool:<\/p>\n

Although rural America faces mounting uncertainty related to the<\/em> COVID-19 <\/em>pandemic, Mother Nature certainly won\u2019t give anyone a pass this year. Farmers in\u00a0Maryland\u00a0and all across America need to maintain the tools that allow them to protect their farms and keep supply chains moving.<\/em><\/p>\n

The best tool out there for mitigating the risks of weather and prices is the public-private partnership of crop insurance\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Farming is an expensive and risky business. Farmers have to buy all of the inputs that go into growing a successful crop before they know what the final harvest prices will be and without knowing whether a big storm is going to ruin all of their hard work or whether a pandemic will create new challenges that we didn\u2019t plan for this planting season.<\/em><\/p>\n

And Clayville is concerned not only about the farmers growing our crops, but the rural economies and small-town jobs that are supported by agriculture:<\/p>\n

I think about the banks and equipment dealers, hardware stores and grocery stores in my town. If farmers weren\u2019t spending money on Main Street, we\u2019d have no town<\/em>\u2026<\/em> keeping our rural economies alive and grocery stores stocked is critically important.<\/em><\/p>\n

The bottom line: farmers require the strong farm safety net provided by crop insurance to provide certainty as they navigate an uncertain world and continue their essential work of feeding and fueling America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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