{"id":4532,"date":"2013-05-21T09:28:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncis.staging.wpengine.com\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2013-05-21T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:28:26","slug":"setting-the-record-straight-on-crop-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/setting-the-record-straight-on-crop-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the Record Straight on Crop Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tom Zacharias, National Crop Insurance Services<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, opponents of farm policy attract more headlines than the men and women who put food on our tables and clothes on our backs.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, it is far easier to get attention with sensationalist claims and unsubstantiated data.<\/p>\n<p>Take the drought of 2012 for example. Opponents of crop insurance made news by claiming that taxpayers would be responsible for as much as $40 billion. Critics called crop insurance a farmer bailout and said things like farmers were \u201claughing all the way to the bank\u201d and were \u201cpraying for drought, not praying for rain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Never were these anti-agriculture activists and for-hire university economists criticized for their bombastic tone or baseless predictions that turned out to be incredibly inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, farmers tried to set the record straight, but supporting a farm policy that helped protect taxpayer dollars is not as glamorous as inflated estimates and inflammatory rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Now, crop insurance opponents are at it again as Congress prepares to negotiate a farm bill. Farmers have been accused of \u201ctaking bribes.\u201d Farmers even have been compared to cheap drunks at an open bar and told to pay their fair share.<\/p>\n<p>Use of such language and misleading information&#8230;<\/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>By Tom Zacharias, National Crop Insurance Services Admittedly, opponents of farm policy attract more headlines than the men and women who put food on our tables and clothes on our [&hellip;]<!-- 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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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