# USDA Asked To Change Apple Crop Insurance 

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New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has joined with her Senate colleagues in a bipartisan campaign to improve crop insurance coverage for all apple growers in New York and across the country. 

In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, Senator Clinton and her colleagues urged the USDA's Risk Management Agency to amend its proposed apple crop insurance policy to allow growers to take out separate insurance policies on their orchards. 

According to the Senators, the present proposal could leave growers at risk of losing substantial amounts of money if their crops are damaged because they cannot take out individual insurance policies that are appropriate for the different types of apples they grow.

Sources:
- Insurance Journal (http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2004/06/03/42874.htm)