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A risk management advisor says other countries want to know more about how the U.S. crop insurance system works.

Thomas Zacharias is the President of National Crop Insurance Services.  He tells Brownfield crop insurance is handled differently in most other countries.  He says, “In general, they do not have the sort of federal system that we do.  It tends to be more localized.  They’re attempting to involve their departments of agriculture and their governments into it, but it doesn’t have near the capacity or infrastructure that we have in the U.S.”

Zacharias tells Brownfield representatives from Japan, Serbia, Austria, Germany came to the U.S.

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