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go ahead and fulfill their roles.”
He is also looking forward to
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“making sure that as a whole
program we’re meeting the needs
of the community. I think that’s
the challenge. We have family
and youth components, we have
an agriculture component, and
all those pieces help to meet the
needs.
“Also, from program stand
point, I hope to make sure that
we’re broadly encompassing ev
erything and do it well, to make
sure that we’re not spreading
ourselves too thin in the process.”
Another aspect of the position
that Myers would like to em
phasize is “making sure that as
may people in the community
know who we are,” he said.
“I think extension has always
been a challenge in that people
look at us because of one aspect
of what we are, and don’t recog
nize what all aspects of what we
can do in the community.”
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Agriculture Secretary Announces
New Crop Insurance Plan
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Agriculture Secretary
Sam Hayes announced that the
Pennsylvania agriculture com
munity will have the opportunity
to purchase whole-farm revenue
protection with the new Adjusted
Gross Revenue-Lite (AGR-Lite)
insurance program.
“Pennsylvania farmers are
faced with increasing market and
weather-related risks and need
access to a risk-management pro
gram that reflects production as
pects unique to Pennsylvania,”
Hayes said. “AGR-Lite reflects
Pennsylvania agriculture’s
unique diversity and has the po
tential of providing meaningful
crop insurance protection for vir
tually all types of crop and ani
mal production for the vast ma
jority of Pennsylvania farmers.”
Pennsylvania farmers for the
first time will be able to cover
their entire farming operation
with one policy.
The plan was developed by the
Department of Agriculture and
approved as a new insurance
product by the USDA Federal
Crop Insurance Corpo
ration.
“Pennsylvania farmers asked
for a whole-farm policy that cov
ered all their production, and we
developed one,” Hayes said.
“This is the first time a state De
partment of Agriculture ever de
veloped a new insurance prod
uct.”
Under AGR-Lite, all crops and
animal production can be pro
tected with one policy and only
one set of historical records. This
increased simplicity, compared to
other insurance programs, will
make it easier for producers to
understand and improve their
risk-management decisions. The
policy is limited to a maximum
protection of $lOO,OOO annually.
Therefore, the target market will
be farms with a five-year average
of $200,000 or less of gross farm
income.
As part of the recent crop in
surance reform movement, the
Department of Agriculture seized
the opportunity to raise aware-
Grumbine To Chair Ag Committee
Grumbine also noted that he was elected international vice chair
man of the Ag Committee for the lAFE. In 2004, Grumbine noted he
will be chairperson of the Ag Committee.
Last year at the event, the Farm Show won in
three categories at the convention: overall compet
itive ag program, overall program for commercial
ag exhibitors, and nonevent agriculture program
(for All-American Dairy Show).
Grumbine noted that about 5,000 fair and expo
sition representatives throughout the world at
tended the convention.
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ness of the need for crop insur
ance. Before the agency’s in
volvement, national insurance
policies were not inviting for
Pennsylvania's diverse agricul
ture.
To help guide the needed
changes, Hayes formed a Penn
sylvania Crop Insurance Task
Force and worked with farmers,
agricultural leaders, national in
surance companies and the Risk
Management Agency to forge a
crop insurance program more re
flective of Mid-Atlantic cropping
systems. AGR-Lite is the result of
Pennsylvania’s mission to devel
op a crop insurance program re
flective of its crop insurance
needs.
AGR-Lite will be made avail
able for producer sign-ups in
mid-December with Jan. 31, 2003
as the enrollment deadline. Pur
chase will be made through crop
insurance agents.
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