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Conservation compliance needs tweaking
A new report by USDA’s Economic Research Service finds conservation compliance incentives in crop insurance programs are helping improve the environment, but ag leaders say the signup process needs improvement.
During a recent Senate Ag Committee farm bill hearing William Cole, chairman of the Crop Insurance Professionals Association, told lawmakers farmers can lose crop insurance coverage if they’re unfamiliar with the conservation requirement. “It’s so prohibited that, especially our friends that have specialty crops in the Northwest—they might not have ever been in a program, and so they don’t really know they’re out of compliance, and then they miss a date and then they have the harsh penalties.”
Senate Ag Committee Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow says USDA has testified otherwise.
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