Crop insurance Don Kraft 06/08/2012 @ 7:40pm There is nothing to keep private insurers from offering private policies to crop producers to lay off risk of crop failure. Farmers can pay for their own insurance just like ordinary people try to afford health insurance. For many folks health insurance is unaffordable as well. A very high percentage of crop farmers resist government subsidizing health insurance but they got their nose deep in the trough for crop insurance subsidies. If we can't offer affordable health insurance to Joe sixpack and his family we hardly need to subsidize millionaire farmers. Life is a struggle for many of us but until farmers show a little compassion for ordinary people, I will oppose any subsidizing of crop insurance.