“The wrong time to weaken crop insurance,” says Conaway
At the first House Agriculture Committee hearing of the year, chairman Mike Conaway told Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, “With commodity markets plummeting and crop producers struggling to find financing, now is precisely the wrong time to weaken crop insurance.” It was the latest rebuff from the farm sector of White House proposals to reduce crop insurance spending… » Read More
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