The Environmental Working Group submits comments to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and Risk Management Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, urging the agency to reform the prevented planting provision of the federal Crop Insurance Program by making the “1 in 4” requirement more stringent, limiting the number of consecutive years in which farmers can receive a prevented planting payment, and not reinstating the 10 percent additional “buy up” coverage for prevented planting.
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