{"id":5663,"date":"2014-09-18T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncis.staging.wpengine.com\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2014-09-18T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T14:00:30","slug":"eating-local-made-possible-with-strong-crop-insurance-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/eating-local-made-possible-with-strong-crop-insurance-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEating Local\u201d Made Possible With Strong Crop Insurance Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One side benefit of the popular \u201ceating local\u201d movement is a growing recognition by urbanites and suburbanites of the importance of agriculture and the need to ensure that farmers are able to withstand the many challenges presented by Mother Nature. While farmers manage their many risks using a wide variety of tactics, there is one tool in most farmers\u2019 risk management portfolio, which they consider indispensable: crop insurance.<\/p>\n<p>The value of crop insurance to New England\u2019s farmers was made crystal clear in 2012 by Tropical Storm Irene, which brought heavy winds and even heavier rains just as crops were nearing harvest. While 2011 saw record losses across the U.S. with freezes in Florida, drought in the Southwest and floods in the Midwest, it was farmers in Vermont who sustained the highest loss ratios in the country. As a crop insurance agent, I can attest that many of our farmers saw their entire crops devoured in one day as floodwaters, sometimes six feet high, swallowed their fields.<\/p>\n<p>After the waters finally receded and the extent of the damage to their farms was assessed, it quickly became clear that Irene\u2019s wallop had the potential of being a \u201cgame changer\u201d for many New England farmers. And crop insurance was the only thing that saved many of them from losing their farms to bankruptcy and instead allowed them to return to their fields this spring and plant.<\/p>\n<p>View the entire story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncis.staging.wpengine.com\/tropical-storm-irene-proved-the-value-of-crop-insurance-2\/#.VBBW3Oed6Gg\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/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>One side benefit of the popular \u201ceating local\u201d movement is a growing recognition by urbanites and suburbanites of the importance of agriculture and the need to ensure that farmers are [&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":5671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,33,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-farmers","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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