Disaster Issues

Disaster Issues

Disaster Issues. I'm Greg Martin with today's Fruit Grower Report.

The farming business can sometimes be like a crap game. Roll the dice to see how all things line up. Sometimes it's sevens and other times you get snake eyes. Judy Olson is the State Director for the Farm Service Agency who says they are more than willing to work with people now and down the road in the case of a disaster.

OLSON: This could be on-going. They don't need to contact us right now. They need to contact us whenever they think - and this could be multiple times. Maybe this last week, I know here around Spokane we had some really cold temperatures at night this last week or so and maybe that occurred in other parts of the state I'm not sure but if your fruit was blooming or some of your other crops have just emerged and were in a fragile stage you might want to report that, hmmm. I think maybe we might have had some frost damage.

Olson adds that in a lot of cases you might not know there was damage done until much later in the season.

OLSON: Maybe harvest and maybe it won't do anything other than just be a good thinning but it's time that notifying your insurance carrier, multi-peril or whether you had NAP coverage it's a good thing. And then say June you're in the drought situation, and full drought and you anticipate you are running out of water and your crop is suffering from the drought, that would be another time to issue a potential notice of loss.

That's today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network of the West.

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