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Excellence and Professionalism
Remain Priorities for NCIS
By Laurie Langstraat, NCIS

While there wasn't a lot of "breaking news" for
the crop insurance industry in 2017, there were
still program changes, weather events, Congressional hearings, and other day-to-day activities
that kept the industry and NCIS working hard.
The U.S. House of Representatives held their
first Farm Bill hearing of the year on February
15, shortly after the crop insurance industry convened the 2017 annual convention. The Senate
quickly followed with "Hearing from the Heartland" on February 23 in Manhattan, Kan., home
state of one of crop insurance's congressional
champions, Sen. Pat Roberts.
The Senate followed this hearing with six additional Farm Bill hearings throughout the year,
and the House held 18 more hearings and six
listening sessions scattered around the country.

One of the most popular mantras by farmers,
ag leaders, economists, and others who either
attended or testified at these events was "do no
harm" to crop insurance.
The drought in the Upper Plains held on a
long time in the Dakotas, but some farmers were
still able to squeak out a decent yield. Wildfires in
the Northwest wreaked havoc on specialty crop
growers, including hundreds of acres of wine
grapes in California. These fires, and the blueberry/peach freeze in Georgia and South Carolina,
and the late freeze/snow in Kansas, Colorado,
and Nebraska, all warranted the release of emergency procedures or additional claims guidance
from the Risk Management Agency (RMA).
August and September were interrupted by hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and late in the year,

The Iowa and Nebraska NCIS Regional/State Committees held their 2017 annual meetings
together because so many of the participants are active in both Committees.

wildfires wreaked havoc in California.
Through it all, NCIS staff monitored these
events and other crop insurance changes, providing guidance and counsel on issues that affected
our membership. This article contains a snapshot
of some of the activities, events, and work NCIS
and its staff accomplished in 2017.

Meetings and Conferences
NCIS Regional/State Crop
Insurance Committees
NCIS Regional/state committee annual meetings always lead off the NCIS year and standing committee meetings wrap up the first few
months of our activity. In between these important meetings, we host the Claims Manager Conference and Crop Insurance Industry Annual
Convention.
Regional/state committees are authorized by
the NCIS Bylaws and are organized to:
	1.	Recommend coverage and language changes
to the Crop-Hail and Federal policy forms
and loss adjustment procedures;
	2.	Promote communication and cooperation
within the crop insurance industry;
	3.	Provide a forum for the discussion of claims
related issues in compliance with Federal and
state law, including antitrust laws; and,
	4.	Promote and participate in risk management
education activities.
These committees meet to discuss the events
of the previous year and plan for events in the
year ahead. Highlights from the 2017 meetings
include:
	 *	 Dr. Marisol Berti made a presentation on cover crop use in the Upper Great Plains during
the Minnesota/North Dakota/South Dakota
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