pknoeber - 9/10/2025 19:05
Big Ben - 9/10/2025 10:41
reformedbanker - 9/10/2025 04:53
Crop insurance, net of subsidies has paid out more to producers than what producers have paid in premiums. That is a benefit to the farmers.
Not all of them.
It’s just another example of gov inappropriately picking winners and losers.
Like ethanol mandates that made irrigated corn farming hugely profitable?
We can’t have our cake and eat it too. The govt being involved is never a net positive for any but a select few who are on the right side of that policy. On the crop insurance policy, the insurance companies are the winners. On the ethanol mandates, the farmer is the winner.
I don’t know the right answer for either of those, but I do know I’d rather live here than anywhere else, so I guess overall it’s working.
Crop Insurance Subsidies