corporate welfare

Crop Insurance: Good Enough for Monsanto-Good Enough for Sustainable Ag

December 22, 2014
Brian DeVore
agriculture, federal policy, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
climate change, corporate welfare, cover crops, crop insurance, crop insurance premiums, crop rotations, CTIC, federal farm policy reform, Monsanto, no-till, resiliency, SARE, soil erosion, soil health

From the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction department: In 2007, Monsanto talked the USDA’s Risk Management Agency into giving farmers a discount on crop insurance premiums if they planted the company’s triple-stacked GMO corn. Reportedly, some…
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…