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Insuring margins with private coverage
Feb 13, 2017, 11:22 AM
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A crop insurance specialist says more private crop insurance options are becoming available for farmers to protect their margins.
Betty Hyde with the Breckenridge Insurance Agency of Michigan tells Brownfield private crop insurance coverage can help supplement federal crop insurance to insure farmers’ margin and 100 percent of input costs. “Tighter margins really just means higher risks, so growers are looking at their cost of production and making sure that they’re protected.”
Hyde says farmers should think of crop insurance as a cost of production necessary to protect their business.
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