The Natural Resources Defense Council is seeking changes to the crop insurance program. The environmental group wants farmers to be incentivized to improve soil health through lower premiums or a higher premium subsidy. The NRDC report also criticized the Actual Production History Yield Exclusion. This allows farmers to exclude years with a crop disaster from the crop insurance production history.
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