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NAWG plan supports strong crop insurance

The National Association of Wheat Growers has sent its farm bill priorities to House and Senate Ag leaders. NAWG says it strongly opposes “any reductions to the baseline available for the federal crop insurance program.” They say more than 85 percent of non-irrigated wheat acres planted in the U.S. are covered by crop insurance and they consider federal crop insurance “essential.”

NAWG says any changes to the direct payment program should be done in “a responsible, staged manner.” They ARE in favor of phasing down direct payments over a few years. However, they say the revenue-based programs proposed by other commodity groups would NOT protect wheat growers when there are “large, rapid commodity price declines accompanied by slower input price declines” as in 2009 and ’10.