{"id":6767,"date":"2016-06-01T10:16:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T14:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncis.staging.wpengine.com\/?p=6767"},"modified":"2016-06-01T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T14:16:29","slug":"crop-insurance-essential-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/crop-insurance-essential-for-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Crop insurance essential for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dateline-storybody\">\n<p>Farm policy used to focus on providing a safety net for traditional row crops.\u00a0 That was largely due to the Great Depression and its lingering effects.<\/p>\n<p>But farm policy has changed to reflect a country with a diverse agricultural sector. The backbone today is crop insurance, and for good reason:\u00a0 Policies can be customized for all types of farming operations.\u00a0 Whether you\u2019re a peach grower in South Carolina like me or a corn farmer in Iowa or a cherry grower in Michigan or a cotton farmer in Texas, crop insurance is designed to cover you when disasters strike. And the more farmers buying policies, the better we all are in the long run because that spreads the risk.<\/p>\n<p>I recognized the value of crop insurance early in my career.\u00a0 In 1995, I was hired to manage the operation I now own, and one of my first decisions was to purchase crop insurance. When I bought the farm a few years later, I already had the production history to be eligible for crop insurance on my own and obtain financing.<\/p>\n<p>There is a direct link between farm financing and being able to go into business, and any farm financing is going to require crop insurance. That\u2019s why I am always alarmed by the attacks on crop insurance by people who have no frame of reference for what goes into starting a farming operation, putting a crop in the ground and surviving whatever calamity may hit.\u00a0 If anything ever happened to crop insurance that made the banking world question its stability, it would devastate agriculture in this country overnight.<\/p>\n<p>I have experienced three complete freezes that would have put me out of business without insurance.\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t have been just a matter of not paying my bank loans; it would have been a matter of not paying anybody.\u00a0 My crop insurance policy allowed me to cover at least part of my fixed expenses.\u00a0 It made the difference between starting over with a new crop or starting over with a new career.<\/p>\n<p>Crop insurance has become the risk management tool of choice for American farmers.\u00a0 It would be a disgrace if a few politicians in Washington succeeded in jeopardizing this essential safety net, crushing rural businesses all across the country, with nothing to show for it but political gain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dateline-storybody\">\n<p><em>Chalmers Carr is President of the National Peach Council and lives in Ridge Spring, South Carolina.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farm policy used to focus on providing a safety net for traditional row crops.\u00a0 That was largely due to the Great Depression and its lingering effects. 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