WASHINGTON, DC (February 23, 2021) – Fifty-eight partners of the Crop Insurance Coalition, representing farmers, lenders, agricultural input providers, and conservation groups sent letters to key lawmakers and the Administration opposing cuts to crop insurance during the upcoming fiscal year 2022 budget process.
- Click here for the letter to the House and Senate Budget Committees
- Click here for the letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees
- Click here for the letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget
“Even in good years, farmers need access to a strong and secure Federal crop insurance program, a program that farmers have described time and again as a critical linchpin of the farm safety net. The strength and predictability of the program is only more critical given the uncertainty that characterizes the production agriculture sector. USDA and Congress have taken extraordinary ad hoc measures over the past three years to ensure the financial security of rural America. It would only serve to undercut these efforts to propose harmful changes to a crop insurance program that provides predictable, within-budget assistance to farmers in a way that helps lenders continue to support America’s farmers and ranchers. It is the certainty of the crop insurance program that provides critical reassurance to lenders,” the letter explains.
Please contact CIRB Federal Affairs Vice President Tara Smith at tsmith@torreydc.com with any questions.
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