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Roberts’ bill strengthens crop insurance

Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas has introduced a bill that he says would save more than 5-Billion-dollars over five years while strengthening federal crop insurance that he wants to be a part of a new farm bill. The measure, he says, is paid for by eliminating all direct payments to farmers.

Roberts says farmers in Kansas and elsewhere were able to get back on their feet after three years of serious drought, not because of an ad hoc disaster package but “because they managed their risk and protected their operations through the purchase of crop insurance.”

Among its features, he says the bill addresses the declining Actual Production History (APH) yield problem by increasing the county transitional yield. The measure is similar to the Senate-passed farm bill from last year.  Roberts and former Senator Bob Kerry of Nebraska authored legislation 13 years ago that was signed into law improving the crop insurance program.

  • totally eliminate the farm subsidy payments. It is full of fraud . If a farmer cannot make a living farming
    then they better get into a different profession.
    with the farm program in place a begining young farmer cannot compete for the land and resouces to get started.

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