{"id":9829,"date":"2018-08-28T10:08:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T15:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.52.184.4\/~cropinsuranceina\/?p=9829"},"modified":"2018-09-19T13:53:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T18:53:54","slug":"new-series-documents-crop-insurances-importance-as-congress-hammers-out-farm-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iripreviewsite.com\/cropinsuranceinamerica\/new-series-documents-crop-insurances-importance-as-congress-hammers-out-farm-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"New Series Documents Crop Insurance\u2019s Importance as Congress Hammers Out Farm Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Farmers across the nation spent the dog days of summer praying for more rain, or less rain, harvesting wheat, worrying about failed corn crops and wondering how far commodity prices will drop.<\/p>\n

And in Washington, lawmakers spent the hot summer hammering out their differences in the Farm Bill \u2013 a critical piece of legislation the agriculture community hopes will pass before fall harvest time.<\/p>\n

National Crop Insurance Services set out this summer to document the lives and voices of farmers across America in a new series that debuts today with stories from Kentucky and Indiana. You can watch the stories on NCIS\u2019 new website, cropinsuranceinmystate.org<\/a>, which also features a host of information about America\u2019s top farm safety net program.<\/p>\n

Jeff Coke<\/a> is one of the farmers NCIS caught up with. He loves growing corn and soybeans on his farm in Owensboro, Kentucky. His love of the land might sound strange to the folks in the big cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a tie to the dirt that other people don\u2019t understand,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, I like the smell of fresh dirt. Most people think that\u2019s crazy. I like the smell of fresh cut hay. I like the smell of silage. Manure doesn\u2019t even upset me. That\u2019s the smell, when I was a kid, you always smelled in the spring time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite his love and care for the land he farms, this year hasn\u2019t been good to Coke. He\u2019s lost a lot of his crop.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe usually start drilling wheat about the 10th of October,\u201d he said. \u201cWe only got to go about five days and then it started raining and it\u2019s been wet ever since until we started planting corn and we\u2019ve been wet off and on even through the corn planting season. I\u2019ve already lost some corn three times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crop insurance will help him recover at least some of what he lost in the corn. It will help him farm another season and deliver the quality food American\u2019s expect at a price they can afford.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a total protection plan for our food supply,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you lose your farmers, you lose your food. It\u2019s that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across the state line in Boonville, Indiana, Mike Heuring<\/a> is expecting a decent harvest. He hasn\u2019t had the problems with the wet weather that Coke experienced.<\/p>\n

While this harvest is looking up, it wasn\u2019t too long ago that Heuring, who is also a crop insurance agent, faced a massive loss. The drought of 2012 remains the worst he can remember and likely the worst his family has experienced in at least three generations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so hot,\u201d he said. \u201cIn addition to being dry it was very hot. And you could actually smell the corn cooking in the field on some of those afternoons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Without insurance, he says he would have had to sell land or equipment, or take out loans on property, to farm another year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if it would have put me out of business, but it would have been 10 steps backwards,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would have been really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s glad to see Congress is keeping crop insurance intact in the Farm Bill instead of limiting it, or making it more expensive, as some opponents of American agriculture have suggested.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not have a safety net where the people that occasionally benefit from it are paying into it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a handout.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also better than disaster legislation, which in the past has been mired in politics and late to arrive, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s much better than an ad hoc disaster type program,\u201d he said. \u201cBy the time you would actually get that benefit it\u2019s almost too late anyway. So yeah, I think crop insurance is the best system and obviously the majority of farmers agree based upon the participation rates.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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