Saturday, January 13, 2007

Farmers Home Insurance

Minutes of monthly Farm Service Agency meetings, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, show some Tulare growers have pushed the disaster program to the limit. In March 2004, for example, a grower sought a payment on 27.6 acres of nectarines he said he had grown three years earlier. After a field inspection and aerial photographs, the committee concluded: "there was no evidence of nectarines. The slides distinctly show pulled trees in bunches on the 27.6 acres.

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