Managing Risk:Crop insurance, growers' most important risk-management tool, faces threats in the new budget.

摘要

The disastrous effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl initially drove Congress to authorize the federal crop insurance program. Since then, the program has been a critical tool to help growers affordably manage the many risks that come with farming. Today, it's widely acknowledged to be the best risk management tool crop producers have; it protects 90 percent of U.S. cropland.