The crop insurance program has been a big question mark in the debate over the 2007 Farm Bill. In USDA's farm bill proposal, it recommended "gap coverage," a new crop insurance policy to cover deductibles. House Subcommittee Reviews Crop Insurance Compiled By Staff. The House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management held a hearing Tuesday to review the crop insurance industry. House Ag Committee Chairman Rep. In testimony before the subcommittee, USDA Chief...

Officially, the company denies that, with a spokeswoman in Dublin pointing out that permission for the trials, granted in 2006 by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), despite angry public protests, covers a five-year period. A major selling point for the project is that the potatoes would be resistant to blight, a disease that wiped out the national crop in the 19th century and led to a famine that decimated the population. For the second year in succession, BASF, the German...

The Hindu News Update Service. to introduce weather-based crop insurance scheme New Delhi, April 16 (PTI): Confronted with incidents of farmer suicides due to drought and other factors, government will soon introduce a comprehensive weather-based crop specific insurance scheme in Maharashtra and a few other states. to introduce weather-based crop insurance scheme New Delhi, April 16 (PTI): Confronted with incidents of farmer suicides due to drought and other factors, government will soon...

Prof Tester said he understood opposition to GM crops because the public could not see any benefit, but technological improvements would produce better crops for the future with less stress on the environment. AUSTRALIANS will have to accept genetically modified (GM) food if the agriculture industry is to continue in an era of climate change, a plant genetics expert says. Prof Tester said a current study was focusing on improving the "toughness" genes of plants so they could survive in...

GAO released a new report on crop insurance Thursday, crediting RMA with taking steps to improve the program, but also saying more work needs to be done. GAO recommends that Congress use the next farm bill to grant RMA authority to periodically renegotiate terms with companies in order to provide reasonable cost allowances and underwriting gains. GAO Report Calls for Continued Improvement of Crop Insurance Compiled By Staff. A 2005 Government Accountability Office report said that the USDA...

The continuing rapid adoption of GM crops reflects the substantial improvements in productivity, the environment, economics, health and social benefits, realised by both large and small farmers, consumers, and society in both industrial and developing countries. The continuing rapid adoption of GM crops reflects the substantial improvements in productivity, the environment, economics, health and social benefits, realised by both large and small farmers, consumers, and society in both...