The Nebraska Farm Bureau wants USDA to move quickly in implementing a key crop insurance provision contained in the 2014 farm bill. Farm Bureau’s Director of National Affairs Jordan Dux says they want farmers to be able to exclude any year from their Actual Production History if the yield in that year was less than 50 percent of the 10 year county average.
Dux says many producers have experienced severe effects this year from tornados, flooding or hail and need the help this provision could bring.
Dux says at last week’s House Agriculture Committee meeting, USDA officials said due to the complexity of the crop insurance provision it would likely be the fall of either 2015 or 2016 before it would be implemented. He says it’s needed much sooner.