{"id":7088,"date":"2017-01-09T09:07:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T14:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncis.staging.wpengine.com\/?p=7088"},"modified":"2017-01-09T09:07:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T14:07:42","slug":"sen-grassley-sets-stage-for-new-farm-bill-calls-crop-insurance-his-top-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/sen-grassley-sets-stage-for-new-farm-bill-calls-crop-insurance-his-top-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Grassley Sets Stage for New Farm Bill, Calls Crop Insurance His Top Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/220px-Sen_Chuck_Grassley_official-1.jpg\" alt=\"220px-sen_chuck_grassley_official\" \/>Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley says his top Farm Bill priority in the 115th Congress is to preserve a vigorous crop insurance program, noting there is no safety net more valuable to farmers and taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It not only saves the taxpayers money, because obviously if we didn&#8217;t have crop insurance and you had disasters in agriculture, the taxpayers would be 100 percent of it,&#8221; Sen. Grassley, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, noted in a press conference last week. &#8220;In addition to saving the taxpayers money, we also are encouraging farmers to plan ahead and to manage risk&#8230;95 percent of the farmers in Iowa do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that Sen. Grassley has taken to the airwaves to tout crop insurance&#8217;s importance. In September, <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.criticalimpact.com\/go\/1\/c900e99d9b643ac8383698465e933efc\/25838\/3d1b4f929348bb62\/0f1d3b6f8f58e9083947229f28c3afba\">he was outspoken<\/a> in an Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network interview about the importance of crop insurance as eastern Iowa began rebuilding in the wake of severe flooding.<\/p>\n<p>And just two months later, he joined Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) in an interview with KIOW News and, again, emphasized that the policy <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.criticalimpact.com\/go\/1\/c900e99d9b643ac8383698465e933efc\/25838\/3d1b4f929348bb62\/9381d3d4b12d015c3947229f28c3afba\">works<\/a> well for both farmers and taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley added in his recent press conference that Farm Bill discussions are set to begin soon with hearings in the Agriculture Committee<\/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>Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley says his top Farm Bill priority in the 115th Congress is to preserve a vigorous crop insurance program, noting there is no safety net more [&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":52,"featured_media":7110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress","category-whats-cropping-up"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sen. 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