{"id":4869,"date":"2013-09-24T09:59:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncis.staging.wpengine.com\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2013-09-24T09:59:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T13:59:02","slug":"ncis-responds-to-unfair-bloomberg-series-on-agri-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/ncis-responds-to-unfair-bloomberg-series-on-agri-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"NCIS Responds to Unfair Bloomberg Series on Agri-Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Adams, radio host of Agri-Talk, recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agweb.com\/multimedia\/agritalk.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed <\/a>National Crop Insurance Services President Tom Zacharias regarding a recent Bloomberg News series that contained numerous factual errors and obvious bias, claiming for instance, that the government \u201cpays farmers to buy [crop insurance] coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarmers are not paid to buy crop insurance,\u201d noted Zacharias. \u201cFarmers pay for crop insurance.\u201d Zacharias explained that crop insurance was a new kind of risk management tool which required farmers to purchase policies with their own money in order to enjoy the relative protection that crop insurance provides.<\/p>\n<p>Zacharias noted that farmers \u201cspent about $4 billion of their own money in 2012 for premium, and last year when we had the catastrophic drought through the Midwest, before those deductibles kicked in, farmers absorbed just under $13 billion in uninsured losses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained that contrary to farm safety net programs of the past, there is no subsidy in the traditional sense of the word to farmers who purchase crop insurance. \u201cFarmer premiums are discounted which makes crop insurance affordable,\u201d he said, adding that farmers only receive an indemnity payment if they receive a verifiable loss.<\/p>\n<p>Zacharias also pointed out that Bloomberg News led its readers to believe that the costs from last year\u2019s historic drought had become the norm, \u201cnot putting it into perspective of what we were going through \u2013 the drought of 2012,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zacharias told Adams that contrary to the claims in the Bloomberg News series, crop insurance companies are never guaranteed a profit; in fact they have suffered losses in a number of years. \u201cCompanies lost money last year, so I don\u2019t think that they view this as a guaranteed profit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zacharias explained that the lengthy series also failed to mention that crop insurance has taken $12 billion in funding reductions since the 2008 Farm Bill. \u201cSo there\u2019s a laundry list of issues here\u201d that Bloomberg failed to report correctly or completely omitted, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfounded, sensationalist headlines are uncalled for, it does not serve the public interest, nor the Bloomberg readership.\u201d<\/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>Mike Adams, radio host of Agri-Talk, recently interviewed National Crop Insurance Services President Tom Zacharias regarding a recent Bloomberg News series that contained numerous factual errors and obvious bias, claiming [&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":4892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-insight","category-news","category-whats-cropping-up"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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