In 2011, a year of record floods and droughts, federal spending on crop insurance outpaced commodity crop subsidies. What does it mean to make crop insurance the largest source of federal support for farmers with the growing threat of climate change? Join experts on climate change and crop insurance to learn how climate change will affect crop insurance, and about what might be done to insulate farmers from some of the effects of extreme weather.
Presenters
- Bill Hohenstein
- Jim Kleinschmit
- Scott Marlow
- Julia Olmstead