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with the cattle acting as large lawnmowers. But
when Mother Nature doesn't cooperate, and Gayle
doesn't have enough grass or hay to feed her
cattle, that's when she turns to crop insurance.
" It's been a tremendous help. It is a very affordable
tool that allows you to minimize or
manage some risk, and have a small return if the
weather goes against you, " Gayle said.
This message was echoed by Charlotte Vick,
who grows row crops alongside her parents on
the farm they started near Wilson, NC, with just
25 acres in 1975. " That's really the main reason
that we carry crop insurance. To try to protect
against the weather because you know, we're at
the mercy of Mother Nature. "
" No farmer wants to have a loss, " explained
Brian McClam, a seventh-generation farmer
from Kingstree, SC. Brian grows cotton, soybeans,
and corn, and has had a couple close calls
when it comes to natural disasters.
" Without crop insurance...this farm would
not still be here. It would be gone, " Brian said.
Several years ago, seventh-generation farmer
Neal Baxley watched as a foot and a half of rain
washed away the crops he was about to harvest in
Marion, SC. An entire growing season, and the
expenses and inputs and time that went into that
season, gone.
Crop insurance helped soften the blow. Neal
said there is a misconception that crop insurance
covers a farmer's entire loss. " It's not going to
make him completely whole but it's a tool that can
try to help him get him through to the next year. "
America's farmers and ranchers are the
foundation of our food supply and critical drivers
to the farm economy. The Moore family
understands this better than most. Michael is
Charlotte Vick (second from left) and her two daughters (far left and right) and her parents on their farm near
Wilson, NC.
a third-generation family while Antoine is a
branch loan officer at AgCarolina Farm Credit
and farms with his father.
Antoine pointed out that having a solid risk
management plan is a critical consideration
for lenders, giving them more certainty when
approving farm loans. " Certainly, that makes a
huge impact, not just on that farmer, but also
on that rural community that relies on that
farmer to produce a crop, " Antoine said.
" Crop insurance helps me relieve the stress by
knowing that if a disaster happened on the farm,
I have something to fall back on. That I won't
lose, completely, lose everything, " Michael said.
As Johnny Watts said, " You live to fight another
day because of crop insurance. "
Watch these stories and more at CropInsuranceInAmerica.org.
Sweet
potato shoots waiting to be planted on the Vick
Family Farm.
Antoine and Michael Moore.
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