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Georgia farmers say federal hurricane crop product and weather-station failures left many unpaid
Summary
Farmers and crop insurance agents told the House study committee that a federally administered supplemental hurricane crop product paid some producers but left others unpaid after NOAA stations failed; witnesses described distress, lost roofs and livestock and rising input costs.
Ben Boyd, a row-crop farmer from Screven County and a member of the Georgia Farm Bureau board, described the aftermath of a recent storm and how a new crop insurance hurricane product failed to pay in parts of his county because weather stations were damaged.
“We woke up, and it looked like a movie. I mean, it was terrible,” Boyd said of the storm’s immediate damage in his county. He described clearing roads, checking on neighbors, lost homes and livestock, and nine days without power. He said Farm Bureau representatives inspected his damaged house and left with a check, but that other claims and losses remained unresolved.
Boyd recounted buying a supplemental…
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