At it’s annual meeting this week in Scottsdale, Crop Insurance and Reinsurance Bureau (CIRB) is celebrating 60 years of serving farmers with safety net products to help them keep feeding the world.
The numbers show that crop insurance is more important than ever for farmers. “A four billion dollar industry 15 or 20 years ago is now an 18 billion industry,” said CIRB Chairman Brian Young with Great American Insurance Group. “There’s been a big push to try to get insurance available to all farmers who wish coverage for the crops that they grow.”
While CIRB always works to protect crop insurance from detractors, it’s especially important during farm bill negotiations, so Young says they will be very busy on Capitol Hill this year.
In this interview, Young also talks about CIRB’s very successful Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) which has 20 participants this year.
Interview with Brian Young, Great American 6:07