On May 24, the House Agriculture Committee, led by Chairman GT Thompson (R-PA), passed H.R. 8467, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act, by a vote of 33 to 21. The bill passed with the unanimous support of Committee Republicans, along with the support of four Democrats, Representatives Yadira Caravao (D-CO), Eric Sorensen (D-IL), Don Davis …
Continue reading House Committee Passes Farm Bill with Crop Agent Inflation Adjustment
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA) recently released the title-by-title summary of the draft Farm Bill, which the committee plans to release this week and mark up next week. A key piece of legislation that PIA strongly supports and helped develop, the Ensuring Access to Risk Management Act of 2024 (H.R. 8055), is …
Continue reading PIA Crop Insurance Priority Included in House Farm Bill Draft
A PIA top priority was introduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives to reinstate an inflation adjustment for crop insurance agents, as well as to provide relief for specialty crops. The bipartisan Ensuring Access to Risk Management Act of 2024 (H.R. 8055) was introduced by Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA) with original cosponsors Reps. Jimmy …
Continue reading PIA-Backed Bill to Reinstate Crop Inflation Adjustment Introduced in House
The Risk Management Agency (RMA), responsible for supervising the federal crop insurance program, has issued a Managers bulletin to Approved Insurance Providers (AIPs), instructing them to immediately stop any cancellation of agent/agency contracts. Recently, some AIPs have been scaling back their federal crop insurance operations in specific crops, insurance plans, and geographic regions. Steps to …
Continue reading RMA Bulletin Halts Cancellations of Crop Insurance Agent/Agency Contracts
The U.S. Senate recently passed the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bill. It passed 82-15, as part of a package with two other funding measures, the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies bill and Transportation, Housing and Housing and Urban Development bill. The Senate Appropriations …
Continue reading Senate Calls for Reinstatement of Crop Insurance Inflation Adjustment
The House Appropriations Committee held a markup on June 14 during which the Committee considered and passed its fiscal year 2024 (FY 24) Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies appropriations bill. Included in the bill’s Agriculture title is report language reiterating Congress’s stance, first articulated in its 2022 year-end omnibus appropriations …
Continue reading Congress Again Calls on RMA to Reinstate Crop Insurance Inflation Adjustment
Senator Tina Smith (D-Minnesota) began her career in public service when she was elected the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota in 2014. After being appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2017, she ran and secured her first 6-year term in 2020. Senator Smith attended Stanford University and afterward attended the Tuck School of Business at …
Continue reading Member Spotlight: Senator Tina Smith (D-MN)
Members of PIA of Virginia meet with Congressman Ben Cline (R-VA) PIA members from around the nation converged on Washington, D.C. on May 10 for its 2023 Advocacy Day. Agents met with Senators, Representatives, and legislative staffers to discuss PIA’s key legislative issues. Among PIA’s top issues were a request to the USDA’s Risk Management …
Recently, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) responded to a March letter sent by PIA and other agent groups, including the Crop Insurance Professionals Association, urging them to reinstate the inflation adjustment for crop agents. In its response, the RMA stated that, without renegotiating the Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA), it cannot reinstate the inflation adjustment, despite …
Continue reading RMA to PIA: Reinstatement of Inflation Adjustment Would Require SRA Renegotiation
Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) is in his third term in the United States Senate where he was first elected in 2010. Previously, Sen. Moran served in the U.S. House for 14 years. Senator Moran attended Fort Hays State University and graduated from the University of Kansas where he got his degree in economics and later …
