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Disaster assistance programs ohould also recognize that a grower's 

 loss can extend beyond the crop. The 1990 freeze in California 

 exemplifies this very well, when we lost millions of dollars worth 

 of citrus trees. In general, growers received little if any 

 assistance for that type of Iobs. 



While our comments on improving the disaster program have been 

 brief, we hope that our suggestion to improve the crop insurance 

 program is taken strongly to heart. We would like to see a 

 restructured crop insurance plan that provides coverage based on 

 dollars per acre, so that each participant could assess the 

 liability and purchase the amount necessary to provide desired 

 coverage. When that day arrivss for producers of all agricultural 

 commodities, we will be glad to bid agricultural disaster programs 

 goodbye forever. 



Thank you for considering these comments. 



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