commodity program

The (Growing) High Price of an Unreformed Crop Insurance Program

February 1, 2013
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
agricultural subsidies, climate change, commodity program, corporate welfare, crop insurance, Farm Bill, farms, Land Stewardship Project, rowcrop agriculture

By Adam Warthesen, Land Stewardship Project Just when you think the facts and figures around federal subsidized crop insurance can’t get any more outlandish, new numbers emerge exposing the out-of-control spending and…
Crop Insurance: A Safety Net Becomes a Threat

April 12, 2012
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
agricultural subsidies, beginning farmers, commodity groups, commodity program, commodity subsidies, commodity title, crop insurance, CRP, direct payments, Farm Bill, LSP, revenue assurance, revenue insurance, risk management, row crops, soil erosion, USDA

When it comes to the crop insurance sweepstakes, southwest Minnesota farmer Darwyn Bach is a winner. But he concedes that his good fortune presents a quandary, since the way the program is…
Ag Conservation’s Unfair Burden

March 4, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
commodity program, Conservation Stewardship Program, CSP, EQIP, Farm Bill, farm policy, House, Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, Senate, sustainable agriculture, working lands conservation

At a time when the budget mantra “we must all share in the pain” is being repeated ad nauseam, it doesn’t take much searching to find some hypocritical exceptions. Take, for example,…