ASA participates in crop insurance roundtable  - 2009-11-04

American Soybean Association (ASA) Chairman John Hoffman, a soybean producer from Waterloo, Iowa, will represent ASA at a House Agriculture Subcommittee Roundtable on crop insurance on Wednesday, November 4, beginning at 3:00 p.m. EST in House Ag Committee room in Washington, D.C. Hoffman, who will be joined by representatives from a broad group of commodity and farm groups that have been invited to the Roundtable, will speak about the participation of soybean farmers in the program and his individual experience with crop insurance.

The Roundtable was organized by Congressmen Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Chairman of the General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee, and ranking member Jerry Moran (R-KS).

The House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management has jurisdiction over program and markets related to cotton, cottonseed, wheat, feed grains, soybeans, oilseeds, rice, dry beans, peas, lentils, the Commodity Credit Corporation, risk management including crop insurance and commodity exchanges.