According to House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson, 80 percent of the money spent on agriculture over the last five years has been outside of the 2018 farm bill. That includes disaster relief, trade mitigation assistance and COVID money. Weather disasters are emotional issues. Thompson believes that can result in overspending. Thompson would like to take some of that disaster money and invest it in the crop insurance program. “They will make crop insurance more attractive; we’ll get more subscriptions which helps bring income in and we will save money because we will avoid the typical emotional disaster decisions.”
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