2014 Farm Bill

Cover Crops: Insuring Against Disaster

April 7, 2014
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
2014 Farm Bill, climate change, commodity programs, cover crops, crop insurance, diversity, drought, Gabe Brown, Land Stewardship Project, mob grazing, RMA, SARE, soil erosion, soil health

Thanks to the recently passed 2014 Farm Bill, federally subsidized crop insurance is an even bigger player in determining what the landscape looks like. That’s troubling, considering that in recent years that…