The increasing risk of flooding has the lawmakers looking to ways of protecting producers Following the flooding experienced by farmers in Vermont last year, a survey showed that 70 percent of them didn’t have farm insurance to cover their crops and/or livestock. Coverage wasn’t always available This wasn’t just a matter of choosing not to obtain coverage. For another 10 percent of the respondents, the type of farm insurance they would have needed didn’t exist. This meant that only about one in every five food producers had coverage in place…
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