Large and rising costs make crop insurance a budget target
The pricetag for the federally subsidized crop insurance program more than doubled in a decade, blossoming to a $8.6 billion line item in 2014, writes Ohio State economist Carl Zulauf in a blog titled, “Why crop insurance has become an issue.” With passage of the 2014 farm law, crop insurance became the largest strand in… » Read More
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