North Dakota Insurance

As about a dozen journalists and congress elections DELEGIERTE tagged along, East Grand Forks farmer said Secretary General John Driscoll Glickman farmers suffer. There were years of bad weather, low prices and a number of crops wiped out.

He showed this year Glickman wheat, healthier, but Driscoll said the weather and disease could still be destroyed immediately.

Driscoll: You know, it’s a little early to scab.
Glickman: Well, if you crust, as if they come from?
Driscoll: We receive real-time wet on the flowering period is, and it is about three weeks away from blooming at the moment - and the crust moves in the atmosphere around in the air and it is simply above that territory.

Glickman took the opportunity to announce his trip, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is a crust additional $ 200000 in research this year. And he questions the Congress to increase scab for the Advancement of research next year to nearly $ 2 million.

Say economists, since 1993, the scab has caused more than $ 2.5 million in damage in North Dakota alone.

Last year, scab Driscoll corrupted much of the harvest, and others who had remained poor quality. Mr. Driscoll, worse, the Federal Republic of crop insurance, he bought programmes did not cover its losses.

Driscoll: Our guaranteed by losses in the past have pushed our performance as low, we do not trigger the federal funds our harvest, because our incomes are low, anyway - just not adversely affect them.

Driscoll’s echo problems have been during the day with other farmers in similar circumstances. Farm calendar ending in the year 1994 aid and crop insurance has been expanded. But insurance programs harvest, based on ancient cultures. Farmers have several years of poor harvest little helper program.

Several hundred farmers gathered in forums in Grand Forks and East Grand Forks on June 8, their fears, frustrations and solutions with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

Glickman, said his division began direct management of farmers.

Glickman: During this week we’ll come back and we will examine and review the administrative measures concerning crop insurance and others. The message of this meeting must be directly addressed to the President so well, and I am him.

Next year, Glickman said the Agriculture Department is launching a pilot project for an insurance for alternative crops such as mustard and cramby, oilseeds.

And Glickman, he said, is rising wheat prices, which is currently about $ 3 a bushel.

But it comes too late for the messages of some, given that more than 2500 farmers in North Dakota have done in the last two years. And economists believe farm, another 1800 are completed, if low yields and prices of cereals.

A week ago, Sharon and Curt Thureen their bids Farm. Sharon warns its neighbours and Glickman, it is not easy, agriculture. It said gains transfer taxes are far from any flow.

Thureen: We are 50 years and we are in such debt for the rest of our lives, and all our own funds this farm 111 years, three generations, is over. You guys got to rhyme to be done, because a lot of us leave. You have to help out.

Glickman farmers are encouraged to continue, as he tries to long-term solutions.

Glickman: And there is no magic answer to the problems. I liked that he gave. Believe me, I would be happy my fingers and a software component plug-room triple the price of wheat during the night. But I think we can do certain things in administrative law, as well as to cope with helping producers in these very difficult times.

Glickman also reiterated its request for a change of the Farm Act of 1996, so-called “freedom of the farm,” farmers released by the government production quotas, but also remove price of Confederation. While the plot works well in most parts of the country, the combination of counter falling prices and wheat Upper Austria took the Midwest farmers hard. Glickman agreed with the farmers, could it be that “freedom to fail Act of some farmers. However, Mr. Glickman signatories of such a change have little support in Washington.

Hundreds of hectares of arable land in North Dakota are flooded. Glickman, she says farmers suffered losses because the pasture flooded obtain some $ 12 million left on animals in disaster contingency fund.

And Glickman, he says, opportunities for export credit guarantees to Turkey by $ 100 million, making it easier for Turkey to buy American wheat and hopefully beating until the price of cereals.