date:May 17, 2012
r rice farmers, who irrigate, as it has for corn.
Raun said she supports the renewable fuel standard and crop insurance. All I ask is that rice farmers not be left out in the cold, she said.
Joe Outlaw, an agricultural economist from Texas AM University, pointed out that because the revenue benchmark is based on an Olympic five-year average (which tosses out the high and low years), crops with higher prices in recent years will start out with better protection.
In his prepared testimony, O