Cheri Bustos: “We need to make sure that we direct Federal investment to the areas with demonstrated need.”

Risk mitigation is a huge factor for all farmers of all sizes, scales, and complexities.

Congress has also provided significant disaster funding to provide additional support for producers hit by extreme weather, funding for which was requested by the Biden Administration last September.

Those waivers, we like to characterize it as giving out candy on Halloween. They were just given out so indiscriminately.

I hear through pretty much every ag meeting I have how important the Federal crop insurance program is to help farmers manage their risk.