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There's a new crop insurance option now
available for diversified farmers - Whole Farm Revenue Insurance - and an
upcoming webinar will help farmers understand whether it's right for them.
The National Center for Appropriate
Technology (NCAT), the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) and
the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI-USA) are holding a webinar
on January 21, 2015, at 2:00 pm Central time to discuss the Risk Management
Agency's new Whole Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP) insurance policy.
The webinar will feature
presentations from all three organizations on what WFRP is, how it works, and
which farmers it may work for. The presenters will also take question
about the policy.
Paul Wolfe, Policy specialist
with NSAC, will talk about the history of whole farm insurance and the
differences between WFRP and the AGR and AGR-Lite.
Jeff Schahczenski,
Agriculture Policy and Funding Research Director with NCAT, will talk about the
WFRP application process and cover examples of how Mid-Western farms could use
WFRP.
James Robinson, a Research
and Policy Associate with RAFI-USA, will talk about the claims process and the
potential benefits of WFRP for specialty crop growers.
This new WFRP policy replaces the
AGR and AGR-Lite policies, which provided much less coverage than the new WFRP,
and is meant to cover all of a farmer’s crop and livestock insurance needs
under one policy.
The new product will be available
for the coming crop year in most of the United States except for the sates of
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and some counties in
California.
Join us on Wednesday, January 21st, 2014,
from 2:00 – 3:30 pm CST. Presentations
will last until approximately 3:15 pm, with the remaining time for Q&A. Registration is free and open to the public
here: Webinar Registration More information on WFRP can be found on
RMA’s WFRP website and from NSAC.
About the Webinar Speakers:
James Robinson, Research and Policy
Associate, RAFI. James’ risk management research was presented at the
Agriculture and Applied Economics Crop Insurance & Farm Bill Symposium in
both 2013 and 2014. James currently serves as co-chair of NSAC’s Farming
Opportunities and Fair Competition Committee. Prior to working at RAFI, James
was a Graduate Intern for the Florida Senate Committee on Agriculture and a
Research Assistant for the Fiscal Research Division of the North Carolina
General Assembly. James holds a BA in Political Science from LaGrange College
and a MS in Political Science from Florida State University.
Paul Wolfe, Policy Specialist with
the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) has worked on
sustainability and food issues in the United States Senate for over 8 years. He
holds a J.D. from the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law
and a B.A. in Political Science from Gonzaga University. Paul has
spent the last six years working for Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA). Prior
to that he was the Senior Policy Analyst for the Pew Commission on Industrial
Farm Animal Production, where he contributed to the Commission’s final report
and led its Congressional education efforts. He previously worked for
Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD).
Jeff Schahczenski, Agriculture
Policy and Funding Research Director and an Agricultural Economist with the
National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT). Jeff has extensive knowledge
of whole farm revenue, organic, and specialty crop insurance and has provided
more than 20 workshops and webinars nationwide on crop insurance topics. Jeff
in an early Risk Management Agency (RMA) supported project developed the
Adjusted Gross Revenue Wizard, which assisted farmers in evaluating what is
now, in part, the basis of the Whole Farm Revenue Protection product discussed
in this webinar. Jeff has over 28 years of experience in sustainable
agriculture development and farming. He holds an MS in Agricultural Economics
from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a MS in Political Science from the
University of Florida.
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