Posts Tagged: corporate welfare

Crop Insurance: Good Enough for Monsanto-Good Enough for Sustainable Ag

Posted December 22nd, 2014 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, federal policy, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

From the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction department: In 2007, Monsanto talked the USDA’s Risk Management Agency into giving farmers a discount on crop insurance premiums if they planted the company’s triple-stacked GMO corn…. Read more »

The (Growing) High Price of an Unreformed Crop Insurance Program

Posted January 31st, 2013 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

By Adam Warthesen, Land Stewardship Project Just when you think the facts and figures around federal subsidized crop insurance can’t get any more outlandish, new numbers emerge exposing the out-of-control… Read more »