Release: Crop Insurance Bill Would Level the Playing Field, Save Taxpayers Billions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Laura Zaks
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
lzaks@sustainableagriculture.net
Tel. 347.563.6408
Release: Crop Insurance Bills Would Level the Playing Field, Save Taxpayers Billions
Washington, DC, September 26, 2023 – Today, the Assisting Family Farmers Through Insurance Reform Measures Act, or the AFFIRM Act, was introduced by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3). This bill presents important reforms to improve the federal crop insurance program to better serve U.S. farmers equitably and use taxpayer dollars more efficiently.
…“The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) has long supported provisions that will level the playing field for small, beginning, and diversified farms by introducing common-sense data transparency, payment limits, and means tests to the federal crop insurance program,” says Billy Hackett, NSAC Policy Specialist. “While private crop insurance companies and the largest, highest-income commodity farms benefit from an artificial, taxpayer-funded profit guarantee,