1.   A similar move last year to eliminate tobacco crop insurance failed by only two votes.

2.   Crop Growers sells and administers federal multi-peril crop insurance, and primarily hail coverage for other insurance companies and its own subsidiaries.

3.   Crop insurance covers only a portion of their losses.

4.   Crop insurance is one of the last remaining federally-subsidized programs.

5.   Crop insurance, however, is widespread, so farmers may recoup losses to livestock and produce.

6.   Farmers have some government-assisted programs and some crop insurance.

7.   Farmers in other states can still buy policies at USDA office because of an insufficient number of agents offering agricultural crop insurance, Glickman said.

8.   Farmers want permission to plow up infested cotton and still collect crop insurance.

9.   Glickman is asking experts to examine ways to improve the use of crop insurance, and perhaps futures and options trading, to protect income against price fluctuations.

10.   Goran offers nonstandard auto, crop insurance and reinsurance in the U.S., Canada and Barbados.