date:Sep 21, 2012
th Dakota they're not too bad, she said Thursday. But elsewhere, we're seeing all kinds of situations, from aflatoxin to low yields to you name it. And part of northwest Iowa recently got hit by hail just before harvest, she said.
In her 20 years of working in crop insurance, Smith hasn't seen anything like this year. She wasn't working in insurance during the drought of 1988, but the industry has a heavier workload this year because in the 1980s fewer farmers bought federal crop insurance. To