date:Sep 21, 2012
As some 5,000 crop insurance adjusters work through the claims from one of the nation's worst droughts, delays in the process don't surprise Rhonda Smith, Vice President, Insurance, for Farm Credit Services of America. Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Smith and her staff are working with farmers facing losses in Iowa and South Dakota, although that edge of the Corn Belt has escaped the most extreme conditions.
In northeast South Dakota our crops are doing pretty good, and even in central Sou