Environmental Working Group Analysis: EWG - In the Mississippi River Region, Retiring Frequently Flooded Fields Could Save Billions in Crop Insurance Payouts
March 23, 2022
March 23, 2022
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, March 23 (TNSRes) -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following news release:
Farmers received almost $1.5 billion in federal crop insurance payments from 2001 to 2020 for flood-related crop losses in the Mississippi River Critical Conservation Area, a region increasingly afflicted with more frequent flooding linked to the climate crisis. That money could instead have retired over 330,000 acres of frequently flooding land, a new Environmental Workin . . .
Farmers received almost $1.5 billion in federal crop insurance payments from 2001 to 2020 for flood-related crop losses in the Mississippi River Critical Conservation Area, a region increasingly afflicted with more frequent flooding linked to the climate crisis. That money could instead have retired over 330,000 acres of frequently flooding land, a new Environmental Workin . . .