What's a farm program got to do with eating. Farmers keep claiming that farming is a business. So there should be no farm programs other than the same tax write offs enjoyed by other businesses. If a farmer fails because those programs get shut off then so be it. Another farmer who is making a profit will pick up the slack.
Frank: Crop insurance is subsidized because insurance companies know that almost every year in one area or another there are going to be massive losses. Eventually every farmer is going to have a loss. That drives up the cost of the insurance to the point hat a lot of farmers wouldn't be able to afford it or it would deprive them of any profit. While I don't like subsidies some private citizens get those subsidies too. Like SNAP (food stamps) and so on or federally subsidized flood insurance.
Gotta remember that the insurance company is gambling that they won't have to pay out much in losses. That helps keep rates in check. When you can expect to pay out to customers 100% over say a 10 year period that just isn't sustainable for an insurance company unless the rates are outrageous.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown Tractors - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family�s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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