Congress first authorized Federal crop insurance in the 1930s along with other initiatives to help agriculture recover from the combined effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) was created in 1938 to carry out the program. Initially, the program was started as an experiment, and crop insurance activities were mostly limited to major crops in the main producing areas. Crop insurance remained an experiment until passage of the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1980. http://www.rma.usda.gov/aboutrma/what/history.html
In 1978 the Regional FCIC office in Paris, Ky. contracted with Eddie as an independent agent in a pilot program representing FCIC. This allowed crop insurance to be sold and serviced outside of the Federal system.
Continue ReadingHelping my Dad raise tobacco convinced me I needed a college education. We were primarily tobacco farmers but during the late 50’s early 60’s we had 300 ewes. Raising sheep will also send you to college. We farmed in Bourbon and Nicholas County’s moving full time to Nicholas County in 1962. I purchased a farm in Clark County in 1978 where my three children were raised and now we’ve started on the next generation living on the farm.
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