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USDA emphasizes safety net priority
Oct 30, 2017, 14:31 PM
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The Secretary of Ag says crop insurance remains a top priority for farmers in the 2018 Farm Bill.
Sonny Perdue says farmers would rather receive a fair price for the crop they produce than rely on a program, but a balanced safety net is necessary.
“When nature doesn’t cooperate then they can do it again,” he says. “You never get made whole with crop insurance, you never get made whole with a program, but we don’t want it to be a career-ending situation either.”
He says a lot of progress was made for crop insurance to mitigate risk in the 2014 Farm Bill, but there will likely be some tweaks made in the upcoming farm bill for cotton and dairy.
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