Crop insurance \u201chas come under unfair criticism. Those who report on it don\u2019t understand it and its importance to the food supply.\u201d He said it\u2019s expensive to put a crop in the ground, and that a farmer could easily have half a million dollars at risk when \u201cMother Nature says you\u2019re not going to have rain for the next 90 days.\u201d<\/p>\n
A farmer who gets a crop insurance policy doesn\u2019t get paid for 100 percent of his loss, he noted.<\/p>\n
The general public doesn\u2019t approve of direct payments that crop farmers get whether prices are high or low, he said, but \u201cI think we can make a strong case for crop insurance \u2026 and some program to supplement it.<\/p>\n
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