{"id":3922,"date":"2013-03-01T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncis.staging.wpengine.com\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2013-03-01T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:41:02","slug":"farmers-rely-on-crop-insurance-when-nature-turns-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/farmers-rely-on-crop-insurance-when-nature-turns-on-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers rely on crop insurance when nature turns on them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 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 \u2013 there has not been a single call for an <em>ad hoc<\/em> disaster bill from America\u2019s crop farmers.<\/p>\n<p>And why no calls for disaster assistance from crop farmers? Because 86 percent of planted farmland in 2012 was protected by crop insurance, the best risk management tool available to farmers. Before crop insurance was widely available, natural disasters like we have just experienced would have triggered a very costly, unbudgeted ad hoc disaster bill. 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