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By Laurie Langstraat, NCIS
It all started on a February day at Kansas State
University.
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), chair of the Senate
Committee on Agriculture and a Kansas State
alum, kicked off the first field hearing on the new
Farm Bill.
"We start the journey to a successful and timely 2018 Farm Bill in the Heartland, because that
is where it matters most...on our farms, ranches,
businesses and city and county halls across the
countryside," he said.
Crop insurance took center stage that day,
with Kansas wheat, corn, sorghum, cotton and
soybean farmers praising crop insurance for its
effectiveness and stressing the importance of
keeping the program whole.
Amy France, testifying on behalf of the Kansas
Farm Bureau, asked lawmakers to double down
on what is working in the current safety net.
"Without question, the most important
USDA program is federal crop insurance, and
I'm not alone in that belief," she explained. "Crop
insurance offers risk protection to many agricultural commodities and when disaster strikes, the
indemnity check is in our bank account much
sooner than any other USDA program."
Tom Lahey, vice president of the Kansas Cotton Association, also praised crop insurance as
way to mitigate agricultural risk.
"Federal crop insurance provides an effective
risk management tool to farmers and ranchers of
all sizes when they are facing losses beyond their
control, reduces taxpayer risk exposure, makes
hedging possible to help mitigate market volatility
and provides lenders with greater certainty that
loans made to producers will be repaid," he said.
From there, the Committee headed to Michigan State University, Ranking Member Debbie
Stabenow's (D-MI) alma mater and where the
last Farm Bill was signed into law.
"Agriculture is the riskiest business there is.
Nobody else has to depend on the weather report for their success, but farmers also have grit
and determination and passion for what they
do and for that we all should be very grateful,"
said Sen. Stabenow.
"No crop insurance program will make a
grower devastated by a natural disaster financially 'whole' but it will allow them to survive a
devastating loss and continue to support the economic engine of rural America," Chris Alpers of
Redpath Orchards told the Committee.
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