Famers who testified at a House Ag Subcommittee hearing on commodity protections today says crop insurance is essential now and moving into the 2023 Farm Bill.

Jeff Kirwan, of Kirwin Farms in northwestern (New Windsor) Illinois, says crop insurance tools work for him but could always be better…

KirwinHearing1     :13    “real benefit.”

Kirwin also told members of the General Farm Commodities and Risk Management subcommittee (chaired by Cheri Bustos of Illinois) staffing at USDA offices needs to improve to meet all the challenges farmers face…

Kirwin Hearing2    :17   “those programs.”

Kirwin and the other farmers on the panel all said they appreciate the government programs like MFP that got them through this past year but the WHIP Plus program payments were too slow going out.

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