Subsidies on radar for reductions

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Federal subsidies for crop insurance premiums could be a target for cuts as Congress tries to reduce the budget deficit and wrestles with a new farm bill in 2012, a key American Farm Bureau Federation lobbyist said Feb. 3 at the annual meeting of the Crop Insurance Research Bureau in Indian Wells, Calif.

By: Jerry Hagstrom, Special to Agweek