I do not have a problem with crop insurance, nor do I have a problem with flood insurance. The question, as always, is do non-farmers need to subsidize it, just like do people who don’t live in flood plains have to subsidize flood insurance?
Lets go back to the basics. What is the proper role of government in agriculture? What were the original goals?
Do not get detracted by mission creep and details.
We are not completely anti government or anarchists are we? So what should be the proper role?
Hint. The USDA became a major player in the 30’s.
Hint. Currently, if we don’t use the last of the old crop , the day before the new crop comes in, we screwed up.
Let me ask you sir... do you grow your own personal food?
Odds are pretty good you don’t, so the idea that socializing the risk of crop failure is a bad social policy is a bit silly. Everyone eats, not everyone grows.
As I said, we went through the Dust Bowl to learn this lesson, and many others, we don’t need to repeat it because we were too stupid to learn from it.