Maine Public Radio cites crop insurance expert in story on drought relief
Maine Public Radio talked with Erin Roche, a crop insurance specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for a new federally subsidized insurance plan for hay and other forage crops that have been hurt by Maine’s drought. Farmers now can enroll in the new pilot program, which makes payouts based on whether the rainfall in a given season falls below a certain percentage of 50-year average rainfall data, collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.