{"id":13626,"date":"2022-08-31T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/?p=13626"},"modified":"2022-08-26T13:05:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T18:05:55","slug":"crop-insurance-keeps-farmers-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/crop-insurance-keeps-farmers-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Crop Insurance Keeps Farmers Fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weather is one of a farmers\u2019 top concerns. Just enough sun and rain will power a plant, resulting in a good yield. But too much sun and not enough rain, or too much rain and not enough sun, and a farmer might soon be counting his losses.<\/p>\n

The challenges presented by weather volatility was something that we heard repeatedly from farmers in hurricane-prone South Carolina. Fifth-generation farmer Landrum Weathers<\/a> said that \u201cevery year that we don’t get a named storm that hits here is a good year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Landrum farms corn, peanuts, soybeans and cotton while also working as a crop insurance agent with the Agriliance Insurance Group. He said choosing to purchase crop insurance is not a difficult decision. It helps sustain his farm, so he can keep producing food and fiber.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrop insurance basically ensures that the growers are going to be farming next year. That means that our country doesn’t have to call somebody else, I don’t care who, to get food,\u201d Landrum said.<\/p>\n

J.C. Carroll<\/a>, who founded Agriliance Insurance Group alongside Ben Tillman<\/a>, echoed Landrum\u2019s comments on food security, explaining \u201cit’s important for farmers to protect themselves with crop insurance. I think that crop insurance is our best safety net\u2026 It gives us food security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weather was also top of mind for Johnny Watts<\/a>, a fourth-generation farmer who grows corn and soybeans and raises cattle. \u201cEvery time a storm makes up out in the Atlantic, you kind of hold your breath and, you know, is this going to be it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each storm brings with it a feeling of hopelessness. Farmers can prepare for every scenario, but they can\u2019t hold back Mother Nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could have a great crop today. Tomorrow, you may not,\u201d Johnny said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo farmer wants to have a loss,\u201d explained Brian McClam<\/a>, a seventh-generation farmer. Brian grows cotton, soybeans, and corn, and has had a couple close calls when it comes to natural disasters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout crop insurance\u2026 this farm would not still be here. It would be gone,\u201d Brian said.<\/p>\n

Several years ago, seventh-generation farmer Neal Baxley<\/a> watched as a foot and a half of rain washed away the crops he was about to harvest. An entire growing season, and the expenses and inputs and time that went into that season, gone.<\/p>\n

Crop insurance helped soften the blow. Neal said there is a misconception that crop insurance covers a farmer\u2019s entire loss. \u201cIt’s not going to make him completely whole but it’s a tool that can try to help him get him through to the next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Johnny Watts said, \u201cYou live to fight another day because of crop insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch these stories and more at\u00a0<\/em>CropInsuranceInAmerica.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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