federal farm policy reform

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…